{"id":15646,"date":"2021-01-22T08:11:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T08:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musee-paccard.com\/histoire-fonderie-paccard-fondeur-campaniste\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T09:34:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T07:34:54","slug":"history-of-the-paccard-bell-foundry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/musee-paccard.com\/en\/history-of-the-paccard-bell-foundry\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the PACCARD Bell Foundry"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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of the PACCARD Bell Foundry<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The PACCARD Foundry was created in 1796<\/strong>.<\/p>

It is nowadays one of the flagship of the French industry, maintaining an ancestral know-how which has been passed on from one generation to the next since 1796 (involving 7 generations by now), thus illustrating in a magnificent way a successful marriage between tradition and modernity<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Created by Antoine Paccard<\/strong> in 1796, the PACCARD Bell Foundry has been existing for more than 200 centuries. At that time, in a village named Quintal (Haute-Savoy \/ French Alps), people asked their bishop for a priest to be appointed in their parish; Bishop answered, literally: \u201cyou\u2019ll have a priest when there will be a bell in the church tower\u201d. Therefore a founder master was contacted. His name was Jean-Baptiste Pitton<\/strong>; he lived in Carouge, next to Geneva in Switzerland.<\/p>

In those times, bells were still cast directly on site and Mr. Pitton said he needed an apprentice. Village municipality members gathered and appointed Antoine Paccard, who founded the house and created the PACCARD Foundry after his apprenticeship training. When he died, his sons Jean-Pierre and Claude Paccard<\/strong> took over the Foundry business. This new industry was expanding a lot, and Georges decided that factory had to be transferred from Quintal to Annecy-le-Vieux,<\/strong> (Haute Savoy \/ French Alps). Transfer took place between 1854 and 1857.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Thanks to Jean-Pierre\u2019s sons Georges, Francisque and Victor<\/strong>, the Foundry became very successful and was known worldwide by the end of the XIXth century. Georges was taking care of the technical aspects management and supervised the casting of more than 10000 bells. Beauty of the PACCARD bells shape, accuracy of their musical tonality, magnitude of their fascinating sound and harmony\u2026all this is the result of Georges’ hard work. Carillons were very fashionable in Belgium and tended to expand all over occidental countries; Georges Paccard was their main promoter in France.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In 1891 he had the \u201cSavoyarde<\/strong>\u201dcasted for the Sacred Heart Basilica<\/strong> at Montmartre in Paris<\/strong>. It was – and still is – the biggest bell in France. Georges worked with his sons Joseph and Louis, giving them precious advices.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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After World War I, a great number of bells were made at the foundry, some of them being pretty famous, like for instance the \u201cJoan of Arc\u201d bourdon bell of the Rouen Cathedral (Normandy \/ France).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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At that time between 700 and 800 bells were cast every year and sent all over the world. Thanks to Alfred Paccard<\/strong> (Louis\u2019 son) and his cousins Henri and Jacques, Foundry kept on expanding. Henri more particulary specialized in bells tuning and developed a very specific technique thanks to which the PACCARD Foundry became the carillon specialist worldwide. As a matter of fact its reputation comes partly from the molding process used and above all, from the mastering of the musicality of bell involving timbre and music note. This is one of the reasons why 54 replicas<\/strong> of the well known \u201cLiberty Bell<\/strong>\u201d were ordered in 1950 by the US government.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Since then numerous peals of bells were made and sent to the US. At the time when Alfred Paccard\u2019s son, Pierre Paccard, ran the Foundry, record levels were reached. The biggest peal of bells in the world was achieved in 1986 and sent to Canada<\/strong>: 3 bells of 6, 10 and 19 tons.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Since 1989 Foundry is located in Sevrier (Annecy lake shore, Haute Savoy, French Alps, France) and since that date numerous peal of bells and chimes were created, such as the carillon of Chambery (Savoy, French Alps, France), which is the biggest one in Europe. New workshops had to be built in order to face an increasing demand. In 1998 we proudly cast the biggest ringing bell in the world, a 33 tons bell ordered for the third millennium by a billionaire living in the US !<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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