Bazin family

Upon his father's death, he found himself at the head of the family business-indeed a hefty responsibility for a boy of 18.

Two years later, he married his first cousin, Jeanne-Emélie Bazin, with whom he had three sons: Emile-Joseph, Gustave and Charles Louis.

The makers included: Fetique Brothers, Claude Husson, Granier, Lorange, Tournier, Delprato, Ouchard, Jacquemin, Dumont, Couturieux, Richaume, Bourgeois, Bontemps.

Charles Nicolas spent fifty-six years of his life devoted to making bows.

”No better bows made by any contemporary maker.” - [2] William Henley Eustache-Joseph Bazin (1823 1864) son of Francois, also became a bowmaker.

Did his apprenticeship with his father, leaving at age 17 to spend 1885-89 working at Hill & Sons in London, most likely alongside Samuel Allen, among others.

Emile left the bow making profession and, by the time he married (Marie-Nathalie Husson) in 1893, had become a music professor.

Possessed an important library of violin makers and their works which was dispersed upon his death.