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Nicéphore Niépce — Engineer, author of the oldest surviving photograph, 1765–1833
Born into a well-off family near Chalon, an officer and then a landowner, he spent twenty years trying to fix the camera obscura’s images by light, a process he called heliography. He went into partnership with a Paris stage designer in 1829 and died four years later, ruined, without having made anything known. (Editorial synthesis)
Nicéphore Niépce was born on 7 March 1765. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Nicéphore Niépce was born in Chalon-sur-Saône. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Nicéphore Niépce died on 5 July 1833. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Nicéphore Niépce died in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes. (source: Larousse)
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