Person:Gaspard-Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (1)

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Gaspard-Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
d.8 Jun 1865 Paris, France
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Name Gaspard-Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
Gender Male
Birth[1] 5 Feb 1798 Frauenfeld, Thurgau, Switzerland
Marriage to Julie-Christine Chartier de Lotbinière
Death[1] 8 Jun 1865 Paris, France
Burial[1] Paris, FranceMontmartre Cemetery
Reference Number? Q130260?


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Pierre-Gustave-Gaspard Joly de Lotbinière (February 5, 1798 - June 8, 1865) was a French businessman and amateur daguerreotypist, born citizen of the Republic of Geneva, and married to a Canadian seigneuress. Famous for being the first to photograph the Acropolis of Athens and some ancient Egyptian monuments, he is also the father of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, premier of Quebec from 1878 to 1879.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gaspard-Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.