Jacquemart

A jacquemart or jaquemart is a Automate of art representing metal or wood a character carved, which indicates the hours by striking a Cloche with a hammer. One of oldest and most famous is that of Dijon. Taken in 1382 in Courtrai by the duke of Burgundy Philippe the Bold one, it was installed in 1383 on the starter of the southern tower of the Western frontage of the Notre-Dame church of Dijon. It comprised in the beginning an automat mû by a clock and sounding on a bell. This character was called Jacquemart only as from 1458. The Dijoneses associated to him in 1651 a " épouse" automat, Jacqueline. In 1714 or a little later they added a " fils" , Jacquelinet, and, in 1884, a " fille" , Jacquelinette. These two " enfants" sound fifteen minutes in fifteen minutes on two small bells.

The origin of the word jacquemart is dubious: it could come from

jaque Jacques or , old nickname of the French peasants, and according to some hammer , the jacquemart being the peasant who struck the Angelus in the fields.
of the Latin name jaccomarchiardus (from where JacquesMarc ), given to the guetteurs of belfries, which carried a jaque German (: jacke ) of meshs,
of the name of several clock and watch makers with Courtrai, Dijon, Lille…

Some jacquemarts

The following buildings carry a jacquemart:

the church of Auffay (Seine-Maritime, France);
the Holy-Madeleine church of Besancon (France);
the Town hall of Brebières (Pas-de-Calais, France);
the bell-tower of the town hall of Cambrai (France) where sound Martin and Martine;
Coudenberg (Mount of Arts) in Brussels (Belgium);
the Belfry of Courtrai (Belgium);
the Notre-Dame church of Dijon (France);
the Cathedral Saint-Alain de Lavaur (France);
the Collegial Saint-Pierre of Leuwen (Belgium);
the tower of Metzig of Molsheim in Alsace (France);
the Collegial Holy-Gertrude of Bubbles (Belgium);
the tower of the Jacquemart clock, old tower of enclosure and carries strengthened 12th century to Romans-sur-Isère (France);
the Tower of the Clock, known as Tower " Jacquemart" , with Mills (To combine, France);
the tower of the clock of the Place Saint-Marc with Venice (Italy).

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