- ^ Birth date in Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, s.v. "Auguste, family".
- ^ "models for his finest works, which gave him a great superiority over all the other goldsmiths" ("modèles à ses plus beaux ouvrages, ce qui lui donnait une grande supériorité sur tous les autres orfèvres"), according to the biographer of Moitte, J. Lebreton, Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de Moitte (Paris, 1812:29f, quoted in Michael Snodin and Malcolm Baker, "William Beckford's Silver: I" The Burlington Magazine 122 No. 932 (November 1980:735-748) p. 739 and note 26.
- ^ Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel, "The Percier and Biennais Album in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris" The Burlington Magazine 140 No. 1140 (March 1998:195-201) p. 196: "one of the most brilliant periods in the history of the luxury arts, the beginning of the nineteenth century in Paris, where Martin-Guillaume Biennais (1764—1843) held sway as fournisseur privilégié for goldsmith's work for the Bonaparte family from 1796 to 1819, along with Henri Auguste and Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot".
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