Eugene Lageat

Eugene Lageat is a Photographe and editor of postcards French.

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Eugene Lageat was born on August 10th, 1862 with Trévou-Tréguignec in Brittany. Resulting from a family of Shoe-maker S, it will be him even “main bootmaker”. May 27th, 1891, he marries Félicité Marie Seguin, heiress and downward direct of the Seguin family. The father Abel Georges Seguin (1836-1895) is Rentier and mayor of Dannes in the Pas-de-Calais of 1865 to 1882. The mother Lydia Elmore (1846-1885) is resulting from an English family very rich also. It is undoubtedly this new richness as providential as sudden which will make it possible Eugene Lageat to acquire a Darkroom and to become photographer. In 1898, year of its divorce, it is already installed with Chantenay close to Nantes and follows this occupation. Then it returns in Trévou and creates a workshop in its native commune about 1910. It is at that time of good tone in the trégorroises families to come to be made draw the portrait at Eugene Lageat. This last also will publish postcards on Trévou-Tréguignec, Trélévern, Penvénan and Pleumeur-Bodou.
Pour to include/understand the origin of the fortune of the family Seguin, it is necessary to go back to Armand Seguin (1767-1835). This last was the collaborator of Antoine Lavoisier and human guinea-pig of the experiment on animal breathing. It was also one of the discoverers of the Morphine. Chemist, it developed a process Tannage of the skins and installed a manufacture on the Île Seguin, on the the Seine with Boulogne-Billancourt close to Paris. It became extremely rich while becoming the supplier of the armed . Its heirs will resell the Seguin Island and will live during several generations of its colossal fortune. Except perhaps only one: Armand Seguin, friend of Gauguin and painter of the School of Bridge-Swallow-hole which died in the Misère with Châteauneuf-of-Faou the.

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