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GIRARD, PHILIPPE HENRI DE (1775-1845) , French mechanician, was born at Lourmarin, Vaucluse, on the 1st of February
Napoleon
machine for spinning flax, Girard succeeded in producing what was required. But he never received the promised reward, although in 1853, after his death, a comparatively small pension was voted to his heirs, and having relied on the "money to pay the expenses of his invention he got into serious financial
Russia
Warsaw a flax manufactory, round which grew up a village
Danube . He did not return to Paris till 1844, where he still found some of his old creditors ready to press
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