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Founders since the 16th century
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Adolphe Havard (1842-1922), an École Polytechnique engineer, was nicknamed the Great smelter. Smelters dot his genealogy since the 16th century. He definitively settled the Maison Havard in Villedieu-les-Poêles by building the current workshop and its oven in 1865. His father, Paul Havard (1809-1894), was already a smelter in the Norman city in 1836. The family crafted numerous bells in the Manche and Calvados departments.
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