Marc Antoine Gaudin

Marc Antoine Gaudin (1804 - 1880), scientist, worked with the Bureau of longitudes to Paris in order to finance its many research. It tries out and patents many inventions in optics, chemistry and mechanics. Between 1867 and 1872, it obtains by four times the Trémont price allotted to the “scientists without fortune”. He also works on the Daguerréotype S with his younger brother Alexis Gaudin , who then holds a shop of Photographie, and which repurchases in 1851 the newspaper the Light . They assemble together a company of Stéréoscopie in the years 1850, Marc-Antoine being harnessed with research while Alexis deals with the commercial businesses.

To consult

Denis Pilgrim, Gaudin brothers. Pioneers of photography, 1839-1872 , Châlon-sur-Saône, Company of the friends of the Nicéphore-Niépce museum, 1997

Internal bonds

the daguerreotype and activities of the workshops of the Parisian daguerréotypie

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