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Nicéphore Niépce receives the Honours of the Institut de France
In 2008, the Academician Lucien Clergue invites Jean-Louis Marignier, researcher at the CNRS, at the Academy of Fine Arts to report on ten years of research and restoration at the Maison Niépce. Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire Thursday, June 26th 2008 Yesterday, Jean-Louis Marignier, researcher at the CNRS and scientific consultant at the Maison Niépce at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, presented a conference on the “origins of photography, Nicéphore Niépce” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, thus rehabilitating the real inventor of photography. During the summer of 1839, responding to the invitation of Arago (a French scientist and politician), Daguerre presented his...
