sentences:  His father was a "musicus" (singer) at the court of Stanisław Leszczyński, former king of Poland, who became in 1737 the duke of Lotharingen.His mother, Barbe Oubert, sent him to the porcelain factory in Sèvres in 1764, to learn his trade.Possibly he had himself already asked to specialize in the painting of porcelain with flowers and (fantastical) birds.