Background
Jean-Esprit Isnard was born in 1707.
Jean-Esprit Isnard was born in 1707.
He was baptised in the Église Saint-Laurent in Bédarrides. He learned how to build pipe organs in Toulouse. He became a renowned builder of pipe organs.
Many of his pipe organs can be found in Roman Catholic churches in Provence.
In 1742, as a lay brother, he restored the pipe organ inside the Église Sainte-Marthe in Tarascon. The following year, in 1743, he built the pipe organ inside the Église de la Madeleine in Aix-en-Provence.
He went on to build the pipe organs inside the Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur, also in Aix. In Marseille, he built the organ inside the Église Saint-Cannat in 1747.
Death
He died in 1781 in Tarascon, where he is buried.