Editing Maximin Isnard (section)

== Before the French Revolution ==
[[File:Blason famille grassoise d'Isnard.png|100px|thumb|left|Old Isnard Lord of Deux-Freres Coat of Arms<ref>[[Charles d'Hozier (1640-1732)|Charles d'Hozier]], ''Armorial général de France. Provence, Grasse'', {{vol.|30}} page 1261,([https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1114770/f220.image read online])</ref>]]

Born in 1755, he is the youngest son of Maximin Isnard (1731-1799) and Anne Thérèse Fanton, cousin of the Fantons of Andon. He is the grandson (on the paternal line) of Jacques Isnard, merchant curator, was lord of Deux-Frères and Esclapon, and of Claire Courmes, both from old families of the bourgeoisie of Grasse.

His sister Françoise (1722-1805), wife of Antoine Court (they had several children: Honoré, Michel and Joseph Court d'Esclapon and de Fontmichel). His niece, Marie Marguerite Justine Isnard, married [[Claude-Marie Courmes]] (1770-1865) in 1801.

He married Madeleine Clérion in 1778. They had a son, Jean-Jacques (1784-1845), Baron Isnard, private receiver of finances, who married Eugénie-Gabrielle Luce in 1813, daughter of the banker Honoré-François Luce. Their grandson Joseph-Honoré (1817-1898) was confirmed in the title of Baron Isnard by letters patent of September 7, 1864.<ref>[[Frédéric d'Agay]] ''Great notables of the first Empire of Var'', Paris, CNRS, 1988, p. 106 and 107</ref>

He became perfumer in [[Draguignan]] before opening a factory specializing in silk and soap.