September 28, 1834, Marius Chastaing in number 2 of the Proletarian Tribune, writes:
" JACQUARD.
He was no scholar, but he was Engineer. The essence of engineering is to hover above the sciences, for it is a providential inspiration, a mission from above.
Grognier M., Disc. Funeral.
Joseph-Marie Jacquard died on August 7 last Oullins to 1am, He was born in Lyons July 7, 1752. His father, Jean-Charles was a master workman Jacquard fabrics, gold, silver and silk, her mother Antoinette Antoinette Shore, reading lamp designs, and his grandfather was Isaac Charles Jacquard, head and stonemason Couzon. Jacquard was first apprentice bookbinder, but his tastes soon led him to the mechanics applied to silk weaving, it was far removed from its first test of the glory that later was rewarded for his noble work. Of harassment without number were shared. We wanted to honor the quiet of mankind, but instead, we must remind them to support the staggering genius ready to rebuff and show that the consecration of his efforts is inevitably in perseverance. Life Jacquard unremarkable; outlawed following the siege of Lyons, in 1793, his house was burnt, but he escaped the danger by the devotion of his son who called to him and put him in the ranks of the defenders of the homeland. Shortly after, the son of Jacquard died in the arms of his father, the death of a soldier on the battlefield fighting the enemy. Jacquard returned to Lyon, where the revolutionary turmoil had subsided, and indulged in his favorite occupations. His life was simple, tedious and laborious, it was that of a truly patriotic citizen in the widest sense, less patriot, Jacquard had listened to the tempting offers 1'étranger; it was that of a worker, a proletariat. We said, Jacquard facing many contradictions before arriving to adopt the ingenious machine that bears his name. A man less deeply imbued with the idea there would be waived, he was not discouraged and soon became his patron Napoleon, the great man knew how to wear a look profitable on all parts of his vast empire. The jacquard machine was universally adopted, this time dates a new era for the industry. As modest and patriotic
in good fortune than bad, Jacquard do not believe that gold should only pay for work of genius. The decoration of the Legion of Honor, so that really deserved that name, a simple board were the only material rewards he received and he was satisfied, he probably knew it was learned that another even more beautiful because it survives the man. This award is an immortal name. Jacquard name will not perish.
It is not only in the annals of the industry that the name will be repeated Jacquard from age to age, but also in those of the benefactors of mankind. If this race of men dwindled, suffering and rickety, with manners, a physiognomy, a separate language, race for the deprivation of enjoyment of life, dedicated to execution of the slow death of the hospitals, if that race has disappeared is to Jacquard that we must, let us hasten to proclaim it. It is the removal of the factory machines employed before the discovery of Jacquard, must be attributed, physical improvement as enemies of the working class recognize with a secret spite, because they are aware that this physical improvement is born a moral improvement, and that one and the other combined EMPOWERING arise.
Our story was simple as the life of Jacquard. Here our task becomes difficult, we need to tell her last moments. Let us console ourselves, Jacquard had to pay the tribute that humanity owes to nature. He died at 82 years, without companions felt the infirmities of old age too ordinary. Many a procession that would have been much more if time had permitted to warn Lyonnais followed, to his final resting place, the man of progress, useful citizen. Speeches were delivered at his grave by Mr. BEZ, pastor Oullins, Mr. DM PICHARD ally of the late Mr. and Grognier, company secretary of agriculture and useful arts of Lyon, we forgot to say that Jacquard was a member. Mr. Bonander, trader, has agreed, on behalf of his colleagues, commitment to contribute to the elevation of a shrine in honor of this industry. This thought is made, the Labour Court has taken an initiative that belonged to him and decided, on August 26, the erection of a monument. Hope that the wishes of the subscribers will soon be filled. Let us rejoice
honors rendered to the memory of Jacquard, because they spill over the class to which he belonged, we also draw a high moral teaching. To this day the bourgeois vanity, the spirit of caste or cliques had usually costs apotheoses obituaries. Here is a man of the people to which men of upper class make known damage. We are pleased to give these elite men in the person of one of them, the social distinction that envy, aristocratic arrogance, the evil passions and greed are competing in their lifetime. It is time for the skilled craftsman, the workman of merit, whose sinewy arms and rough hands, subject to the action of a superior intelligence, were depleted to produce useful and ever, have also, after their death, a voice repeat to their labors and their works. This religious task is to friends of the people, the proletarians as they strive to fill it. Essuyons the noble brow of sweat that flows of workers.
Academy of Lyon just to advertise praise Jacquard. We hope that noble appeal will be heard and that our esteemed fellow citizen find a eulogist worthy of him. History and ungrateful little substantial retained memory of the devastating world famous robber and she left him in a culpable neglect, unholy, memory useful citizens, good men. That this abominable bias continues in the future. He is proudest of his work in some obscure sphere it is the welfare of his brothers, to the benefit of mankind through the development of science and art through the work of genius, by the practice of virtues , that bloody the earth, to kill people and burn cities. Jacquard
be immortal! "
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