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Louis Drouet
- Born 1792 in Amsterdam, being son of a barber run away from France
- Learning autodidactically on on a small flute (present from a customer of his father)
- At the age of 7 first concert at the conservatory in Paris
- Couple of concert tours
- At the age of 16 first flutist and teacher of the king of holland (Ludwig, brother of Napoleon)
- 1811 invitation to Paris, where he was showered with gifts and honours.
- 1817 journey to england
- 1818 inauguration of of a flute workshop in England, going bust after only one year.
- Very succesful tour through Europe
- 1829 return to England, accompanied by Felix Mendelssohn, being a friend of him
- 1833 back in Paris
- 1840 director of music for 15 years at the duke of Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha
- 1854 journey to America
- Gordon and Popp where two of his pupils
- Was said to be a master of double tonguing, being called the Paganini of the flute.
- Stayed all his live with an old 8-key flute
- Wrote 10 concertos, more than 20 duets, trios, soli and fantasies, more than 300 etudes and a method: "Méthode Pour la Flūte" (1827)
- Died at the 30st of september 1873 in Bern
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