JOSEPH POITOU
Philippe Poitou was survived by three sons, all of them ebenistes: the eldest, another Philippe, lived in the enclave ofSaint-Jean-de-Latran. and the youngest. Jean, had settled in Orleans. The second son. Joseph Poitou, born between 1680 and 1685. started by working in his father’s workshop, and he is mentioned as being there at the time of his marriage in 1708 to Claude Chevanne. He received as a marriage portion from his parents the value of a work-bench and set of tools. At this time the couple settled in the aie Notre - Dame-des-Victoires and Joseph Poitou l>ecame a mar - chand-ebeniste, taking over his father’s establishment. The protection of the Due d’Orleans was to ‘underwrite their son to hold a warrant from Mgr. le Due d’Orleans to open a shop and work at his said metier in this town’. Following this. Poitou executed works for the Due d’Orleans at Saint-Cloud. A note in the inventory taken after his death in 1719 indicates that Cres - sent was owed *250L. with 40L due to the artisans who worked for the deceased at the Chateau de Saint - Cloud and 210L. partly for the payment of expenses incurred and partly to the business’. In 1717, on the
