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In the finest tradition of popular Italian lutherie established in Paris in the first 30 years of the 20th century, three generations of luthiers from the house of Castelluccia wrote an entire chapter of a story already initiated in Italy by Francesco Castelluccia, a violin maker. It was his son Jean-Baptiste Castelluccia who settled in France at the end of the 1930s at Porte de Montreuil, a place then very popular with manouches and gypsies in Paris, and developed models of steel-string guitars there. In the mid-1950s, his son Jacques Castelluccia took up the torch and directed his production efforts towards the classical guitar, which experienced a regain in interest in the 1970s. It is his own son, the contemporary Jean-Baptiste Castelluccia, who continues to bring this brand and its heritage to life in the rue de Rome district where his quality work, hailed by undeniable success, is always in line with classical guitar and so-called gypsy guitars.