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  *  [[Girard, Constantin Othenin|Constantin Othenin Girard]] founds the company //Girard & Cie//. Two years later he marries Marie Perregaux, and from the merger of their names and through collaboration with Henri Perregaux in [[1856]] arises the [[manufacture]] [[Girard-Perregaux]] in [[La Chaux-de-Fonds]].
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