Bedos de Celles, DOM FRANÇOIS, a Benedictine monk of the congregation of St Maur, and the most learned and practical master of the art of organ-building in the 18th century. He was born at Caux in 1706, and entered his order in 1726 at Toulouse. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1758; in 1766-78 was published for the academy his great work, L'Art du Facteur d'Orgues, in 4 vols. large folio, with 137 copperplates, beautifully executed. He died in 1779.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 16
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