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Genevan watchmaker (1672–1747)

Isaac Rousseau (December 28, 1672 – May 9, 1747) was a Genevan master-clockmaker.

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Life

He was born in Geneva, the son of Suzanne Cartier (1645–1705) and the master-clockmaker David Rousseau (October 2, 1641–July 17, 1738), who was himself the son of the clockmaker Jean Rousseau (March 29, 1606–May 26, 1684) and his wife Lydie Mussard (1613–1678).^{[citation needed]} He had eleven siblings – one of his sisters, Clermonde Rousseau (1674–1747)^{[citation needed]} married Antoine Fazy (1681–1731),^{[citation needed]} son of Daniel Fazy,^{[citation needed]} a Huguenot refugee from Saint-Véran, Queyras, who settled in Geneva and there set up the first Indian cotton factory in Europe.^{[citation needed]}

He married Suzanne Bernard (1673, Geneva – 1712, Geneva) – she was the daughter of yet another clockmaker, Jacques Bernard.

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