The Niépce House will participate in the European Heritage Days which will be held on September 16th and 17th, 2023. You will be able to visit the place where the very first photo in the world was taken by the inventor of photography: Nicéphore Niépce. About the Niépce House Niépce’s house in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes is the…
The European Heritage Days were held on the 18th and 19th of September, 2021. Thanks again to all the visitors who came to follow the guided conferences with the co-founders of the project: Photos credits: Pierre-Yves Mahé
2019 Patrimony Days (or European Heritage Days) were held on the 21st and 22nd of September.
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[cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsmasters_text] The revised online edition of Niépce, correspondance et papiers is a compilation of over 700 documents from more than 50 archives spread all over the world. Footnotes give thousands of references; its index of names amounts to more than three thousand; equipped with a multi-criteria search engine. Historical bits and pieces are revealed,…
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[cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsmasters_text] The entire Petiot-Groffier lab in the House of Nicéphore Niépce on the occasion of the National Heritage Days. [/cmsmasters_text][/cmsmasters_column][/cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_row data_shortcode_id=”xncr21qy2i”][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/3″ data_shortcode_id=”a4erpyg4gr”][cmsmasters_text] [/cmsmasters_text][/cmsmasters_column][cmsmasters_column data_width=”2/3″ data_shortcode_id=”zz066xsqgl”][cmsmasters_text] [/cmsmasters_text][/cmsmasters_column][/cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_row data_shortcode_id=”pkp9k5dib9″][cmsmasters_column data_shortcode_id=”m90slittaq” data_width=”1/1″][cmsmasters_text] Conference-Debate-Exhibitions in Dubai at the Alliance Française: [/cmsmasters_text][/cmsmasters_column][/cmsmasters_row]
[cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsmasters_text] At initiative of Manuel Bonnet, and with Jean-Louis Bruley’s technical supervising, Spéos and Maison Nicéphore Niépce have decided to celebrate the bicentennial of the Pyreolophore by rebuilding it as it was originally. It is the first internal combustion engine ever, which was invented and patented by the Niépce brothers in 1807. 10 years…
Near Chalon-sur-Saône Turning a key in a lock has revealed a past hidden away for 152 years: the lab of one of the world’s very first photographers has been rediscovered. Intact and whole. In 1840, Joseph Fortuné Petiot-Groffier opens his lab, which he uses until 1855 – the time of his sudden death under mysterious…
In 1827, during Niépce’s stay in Paris, Daguerre shows him how he plans to capture the images taken by a camera obscura. Once the image is projected inside the camera, the luminal energy is absorbed by a layer of phosphorescent powder and reflected as a light emission. Unfortunately, the resulting phosphorescent image inside of the…
2 rue Nicéphore Niépce,
71240 Saint-Loup-de-Varennes
France
Phone: +33 (0)1 40 09 18 58
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The Nicéphore Niépce House is open each year from July 2nd to August 31st only, every day from 10am to 6pm (closed on Tuesdays).