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Swiss-French jeweller, goldsmith, silversmith, memoirist. Born in Geneva in the family of French Huguenots Étienne Pauzié and Suzanne Bouverot (1716). Travelled with his father via Alsace, Westphalia...
Swiss goldsmith, jeweller. Born in the family of Jacques Ador and Marie Vallotton in the municipality of Vuiteboeuf in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland (1742). Worked as a goldsmith in Geneva and Lo...
Swiss jeweller, medallist. Lived in Russia (from 1760s). Worked at the St Petersburg Mint as assistant engraver (1768–72) and chief engraver (1772–97). Collaborated with Johann Caspar Gottlieb Jaeger...