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    François Mingaud

    Infantry Captain

    Captain François Mingaud was an infantry officer in the French army and a carom billiards player. He is credited as the inventor of the leather tip for a billiards cue, a "possibly not original idea" that he perfected while imprisoned in Bicêtre for political outspokenness. This revolutionized the game of billiards, allowing the cue ball to be finely manipulated by the application of spin. In 1807 he was released from prison and began to demonstrate his invention and spin technique in Paris. Part of his showmanship involved feigning extreme horror as the cue ball recoiled towards him after striking the object ball, and then persuading the audience that the balls should be seized and condemned because they were "tormented by a devil". Mingaud is also credited with the discovery that by raising the cue vertically he could perform what is now known as a massé shot. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Captain François Mingaud (sometimes spelled Mingot, Mengaud or Minguad, [1] and often referred to simply as M. Mingaud; 4 January 1771 in Le Cailar, Nîmes, France - 23 December 1847, in Rotterdam, Netherlands [2] [3]) was an infantry officer in the French Army and a carom billiards player. He is credited as the inventor of the leather tip for a billiards cue, a "possibly not original idea ...
  3. Captain François Mingaud (sometimes spelled Mingot, Mengaud or Minguad, and often referred to simply as M. Mingaud; born 4 January 1771 Le Cailar, Nîmes, France, died 23 December 1847, Rotterdam, Netherlands) was an infantry officer in the French army and a carom billiards player. He is credited as the inventor of the leather tip for a billiards cue, a "possibly not original idea" that he ...
  4. poolhistory.com

    The inventor was Francois Mingaud, who was born on Jan. 4, 1771, in Le Cailar, France. An infantry officer in Napoleon Bonapartes' army, Mingaud was imprisoned in Bicetre in 1804 for his alleged part in a conspiracy against the military leader. There was not much to do at the prison, but there was a billiard table — and so Mingaud would ...
  5. gw.geneanet.org

    Paul MINGAUD 1767; François MINGAUD, Capitaine d'infanterie et d'artillerie de la Grande Armée de Napoléon Bonaparte 1771-1847 Married August 3, 1794 (Sunday), Le Cailar, to Marguerite BOISSIER François MINGAUD, Capitaine d'infanterie et d'artillerie de la Grande Armée de Napoléon Bonaparte 1771-1847 Married, London, to Frances BARTLEY 1782 with
  6. alchetron.com

    Sep 4, 2024Captain Franois Mingaud (sometimes spelled Mingot, Mengaud or Minguad, and often referred to simply as M. Mingaud born 4 January 1771 Le Cailar, Nmes, France, died 23 December 1847, Rotterdam, Netherlands) was an infantry officer in the French army and a carom billiards player. He is credited as
  7. coriolisbilliards.com

    Mingaud: royalist, debtor, inventor, and maybe the original cue games degenerate. Mingaud was a captain in the French infantry, and spent the last years of the 18th and the first years of the 19th centuries in prison, either because of a debt or because of his politics -- sources differ on this point. He spent his copious spare time practicing ...
  8. sothebys.com

    The popularity of Mingaud's work in England can be judged from the fact that it was re-issued in 1831, a second edition was published in 1833 and a third in 1836: all are now scarce (there is only one other record of the present edition having sold at auction in the past thirty-five years).
  9. military-history.fandom.com

    Captain François Mingaud (sometimes spelled Mingot, Mengaud or Minguad,[1] and often referred to simply as M. Mingaud; 4 January 1771 in Le Cailar, Nîmes, France - 23 December 1847, in Rotterdam, Netherlands[2][3]) was an infantry officer in the French Army and a carom billiards player. He is credited as the inventor of the leather Template:Cuegloss for a billiards cue, a "possibly not ...

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