Claude-François Clicquot was born in Paris in 1762, son of the organ-builder François-Henri Clicquot (d 1790) and Antoinette Poinsellier (d 1796). He worked with his father on new organ construction. After his father"s death, he mostly worked on restoring organs that had been damaged during the French Revolution.
Claude-François Clicquot completed a treatise on organ-building, Théorie pratique de la facture d’orgues, that his father had started.
During and after the French Revolution he saved many organs in and in the provinces. These included instruments at Saint-Eustache, Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas and Saint-Merri. The thesis was based on the organ that he and his father built for, which is still almost intact today.
He died in on 29 March 1801.
