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Life and career:
Léon Victor Mougenot son of Joseph Mougenot  was born in 1874 in Mirecourt (France), he belonged to one of the oldest Mirecourt instrument making familly. Léon Victor Mougenot started his apprenticeship at the age of 13 with Emile Laurent and then joined his father's cousin : Georges Mougenot,  in Brussels (Belgium) until 1894. In 1894 he came back to Lyon in France where he worked two years with Emile Laurent at Paul Blanchard's workshop before moving to Paris in 1896 where he worked for Paul Jombard. In 1898 he spent a year in London working at HILL's before finally being able to start his own workshop in his hometown Mirecourt. In 1899 he opened this workshop on 4, avenue Victor Hugo, probably with the help of his future father in-law[1]  Gabriel Jacquet (known as "Jacquet-Gand") a well known Violin Maker from Mirecourt. In this workshop *école spéciale de lutherie Maison Léon Mougenot-Jacquet-Gand*,  several dozens of  future famous makers were  trained. In 1954 Léon Victor Mougenot died, aged  80.