Like many other important *ébénistes* of the 1700s, Adam Weisweiler was German-born. Although scholars know nothing about his apprenticeship and early training, church records show that he was established in Paris in 1777, the year he was married. He became a *maître-ébéniste* (master cabinetmaker) in 1778, set up his workshop in the unfashionable quarter of Paris on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Anto
