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Nicéphore Niépce, whilst still unknown and poor, in Charles Chevalier's optical and instruments shop. Charles Louis Chevalier, 1804- 1859. French engineer/optician. Nicéphore Niépce, born Joseph Niépce,1765 ? 1833. French inventor of photography. From Les Merveilles de la Science, published c.1870
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