Fetique (bow makers)
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Fetique was a family of French bow makers, notable members include Victor Francois Fetique
Victor Fetique
Victor Francois FETIQUE was a prominent French Archetier / Bowmaker from a family of makers.Victor, son of Charles-Claude Fetique . Learned his craft in Mirecourt with Husson , Maline et Miquel .Later went on to work for Charles Nicolas Bazin II in 1901, before joining Caressa & Francais...

, Jules Fetique
Jules Fetique
Jules FÉTIQUE was a prominent French Archetier / Bowmaker from a family of makers....

 both of whom were awarded «Un des Meilleur Ouvrier de France» (1st Craftsman of France) and Marcel Gaston Fetique
Marcel Gaston Fetique
Marcel Gaston Fetique - was a French Archetier / Bowmaker from a family of makers.Moved to Paris with his family when he was two years of age...

.

Family

Head of the family was Charles Claude Fetique (1853–1911) who was a violin maker.

He had two bow-making sons, Victor Francois Fétique
Victor Fetique
Victor Francois FETIQUE was a prominent French Archetier / Bowmaker from a family of makers.Victor, son of Charles-Claude Fetique . Learned his craft in Mirecourt with Husson , Maline et Miquel .Later went on to work for Charles Nicolas Bazin II in 1901, before joining Caressa & Francais...

 (1872–1933) and Jules Fetique
Jules Fetique
Jules FÉTIQUE was a prominent French Archetier / Bowmaker from a family of makers....

 (1875–1951), and a daughter Marie Augustine Marthe Fetique (1879–1928).

Victor Francois Fetique had a son Marcel Gaston Fetique
Marcel Gaston Fetique
Marcel Gaston Fetique - was a French Archetier / Bowmaker from a family of makers.Moved to Paris with his family when he was two years of age...

 (1899–1977).

Marie Augustine Marthe had a son Andre Georges Richaume
Andre Richaume
André Georges Richaume was a prominent French archetier and bowmaker, from a family of makers....

 (1905–1966)

Victor Francois Fetique
Victor Fetique
Victor Francois FETIQUE was a prominent French Archetier / Bowmaker from a family of makers.Victor, son of Charles-Claude Fetique . Learned his craft in Mirecourt with Husson , Maline et Miquel .Later went on to work for Charles Nicolas Bazin II in 1901, before joining Caressa & Francais...

 studied bow making in Mirecourt, working for Charles Nicolas Bazin
Bazin Family
Bazin Family / Bazin Dynasty.Highly esteemed family of bowmakers operating in Mirecourt, France, from around 1840 through most of the 1900s, produced bows in Mirecourt....

, before joining Caressa & Francais
Caressa & Francais
Caressa & Français - was a distinguished firm in Paris that specialized in fine musical instruments and bows.It was founded in 1901 by Albert Caressa and Henri Français, both of whom had worked for the GAND and BERNARDEL shop/firm , when they had succeeded the House of GAND and BERNARDEL -...

 in Paris in 1901. From 1913 he worked independently.

Jules Fetique
Jules Fetique
Jules FÉTIQUE was a prominent French Archetier / Bowmaker from a family of makers....

 worked also for C.N.Bazin before becoming assistant to Eugene Sartory
Eugene Sartory
Eugene Nicolas Sartory was an influential French archetier/ bow maker from Mirecourt, France.Normally spelled Eugène Sartory.After having first apprenticed with his father, he went on to work in Paris for Charles Peccatte and Joseph Alfred Lamy before setting up on his own shop in 1893.He...

. He joined Caressa & Francais in 1917.

Marcel Gaston Fetique
Marcel Gaston Fetique
Marcel Gaston Fetique - was a French Archetier / Bowmaker from a family of makers.Moved to Paris with his family when he was two years of age...

 apprenticed with his father Victor Francois Fetique
Victor Fetique
Victor Francois FETIQUE was a prominent French Archetier / Bowmaker from a family of makers.Victor, son of Charles-Claude Fetique . Learned his craft in Mirecourt with Husson , Maline et Miquel .Later went on to work for Charles Nicolas Bazin II in 1901, before joining Caressa & Francais...

. After his father's death, set up on his own as successor to his father.

Andre Richaume
Andre Richaume
André Georges Richaume was a prominent French archetier and bowmaker, from a family of makers....

 apprenticed with Emile Francois Ouchard
Emile Francois Ouchard
Emile Francois Ouchard was a bow maker for stringed instruments / Archetier from Mirecourt, Vosges, France. Ouchard was also known as "Ouchard Père".-Biography:...

 in Mirecourt. After that joined his uncle, Victor Francois Fétique
Victor Fetique
Victor Francois FETIQUE was a prominent French Archetier / Bowmaker from a family of makers.Victor, son of Charles-Claude Fetique . Learned his craft in Mirecourt with Husson , Maline et Miquel .Later went on to work for Charles Nicolas Bazin II in 1901, before joining Caressa & Francais...

in Paris. He worked on his own from 1923 to 1957.
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