Gaspard-Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
(1798-1865)
French photographer
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Pierre-Gustave-Gaspard Joly de Lotbinière (born February 5, 1798 in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, died June 8, 1865 in Paris) 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, prime minister of Quebec from 1878 to 1879.
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5 February 1798 Frauenfeld, Switzerland
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8 June 1865 (aged 67)
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| Zodiac | Aquarius |
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