“Paper machine 1815, Didot St Leger Patent”

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Saint-Léger Didot (son of Pierre-François Didot) was born in 1767 and died in 1829. Saint-Léger Didot devoted his attention to papermaking in the famous factory of Essonne, where one of his workers, Louis-Nicolas Robert invented a machine to make “endless” paper, and eventually ‘sold’ the patent to Didot.