sentences:  His surname has also been spelled Oppenord and Oppenort.Gilles-Marie Oppenordt was born in Paris.His father Alexandre-Jean Oppenord (1639–1713) was an "ébéniste", born Cander-Johan Oppen Oordt at Guelders, one of numerous cabinet-makers from the Low Countries who were drawn to Paris by the opportunity of patronage; the elder Oppenord was naturalized in 1679, when he was a "menuisier en ebène" ("furniture-maker in ebony") at the Manufacture Royale des Gobelins; in 1684 the elder Oppenord was appointed an "ébéniste du Roi", with official lodgings in the Galeries du Louvre that had been perquisites in the royal gift of outstanding craftsmen in the luxury trades since the time of king Henri IV.