John Joseph Merlin he wheeled about himself, with great facility to any part of the room." At an event held by Teresa Cornelys in Carlisle House, Soho Square, Merlin appeared somewhat disastrously on roller skates of his own invention. By April 1783 Merlin was putting his musical instruments and his automatons on display at his own museum. Advertisements invited readers to visit his Museum of Musical Instruments and Mechanical Inventions at No. 2, Princes Street, Hanover Square, London. Well-off Londoners could meet their friends at Merlin's Mechanical Museum in the afternoon or evening, pay to see the exhibits, and drink tea or coffee
Jean-Joseph Sue (1760–1830) very sick and was back in Paris in June. He was knighted by Napoleon on . He was the doctor of Joséphine de Beauharnais and of Joseph Fouché. During the Restoration, he became Surgeon Consultant of Louis XVIII. He died in Paris on , and is buried in Bouqueval cemetery. Jean Joseph Sue II was married three times and had a total of five children. He divorced his first wife. Eugène and his sister Victorine were born from his second marriage with Marie Sophie Tison de Reilly or Derilly in 1803. Jean-Joseph Sue (1760–1830) Jean-Joseph Sue () or Jean-Joseph Sue