Pierre Jaillard, dit Bressan
(born May 27, 1663 in Bourg-en-Bresse; died April 21,1731 in Tournai).
Pierre Jaillard's father and paternal grandfather died when he was four. He started apprenticing at 15 with a woodturner in Bourg-en-Bresse. At 17, he left Bourg-en-Bresse and probably learned to make instruments in Paris. Pierre Jaillard et J.J. Rippert would have learned from the same master (their alto recorders have great resemblance), maybe a Hotteterre. Pierre Jaillard then left to settle in England in 1688, at age 25. He is mentioned in 1691 in English archives as king William III's "oboe."
At this time, as a wind instrument maker, he was already well-known in London. He was Jacques Paisible's estate executor as well as his friend.
Catholic, Bressan married Mary Margaret Mignon in 1703. At least three of their children reached adult age. The Bressan's lived in a apartment in Somerset House Yard, a former Chancelor of Lancaster duche's palace. (This would explain the use of the Lancaster's red rose in Bressan's mark).
