- Salluste Duval
Clarent-Salluste-Hermycle Duval (February 1852 - July 1917) was a Canadian doctor of
medicine ,inventor ,engineer ,organist ,musician andprofessor ofMathematics &Mechanics atUniversité Laval and at theÉcole Polytechnique de Montréal . Duval was born inSaint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec and is primarily known for his groundbreaking invention of the modern day organ.Personal life
Family
Salluste Duval is the son of
Louis-Zepirin Duval , the Notary of theSeigneur in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, and nephew toEleonore Verreai , who was the daughter of another notary;Germain-Alexandre Verreau . Throughout Duval's early life he was inspired by his mother's career as aneducator , finding himself interested inscience ,physics , mechanics, and music. Duval was claimed to be atinkerer as a child and later became aninventor and engineer.Death
In July of 1917, Salluste Duval died in
Montreal at his home onWolfe Street . Duval was buried in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec.External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7351 Biography at "the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
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