Lupot François I, *5 July 1725 Plombières, †28 May 1805 Paris, called Lupot père, French luthier, son and student of Laurent-François. In 1758–66, he worked in Stuttgart as court luthier to the Duke of Württemberg. Already in the early period of his activity, he was one of the most outstanding violin makers of his time, although his name was overshadowed by the fame of his son, Nicolas. At the end of the 1760s, he moved to Orleans and most of his instruments have been preserved from this period, modelled on the exemplar by A. Stradivari. Many of them were certainly created in cooperation with his son Nicolas.
