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Claude-Marie Courmes
Claude-Marie Courmes (September 9, 1770, Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes – January 31, 1865, Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes) was a French merchant, shipowner and politician. Mayor of Grasse from 1830 to 1835, he was elected deputy for Var (department), Var from July 1831 to May 1834 and General Councilor of Var Canton of Grasse-Nord from 1833 to 1836. Family A direct descendant in the agnatic line of the Huguenot captain Luc Courmes (1580, Grasse), Claude-Marie Courmes belonged to an ancient French bourgeoisie [:fr:Liste de familles subsistantes d'ancienne bourgeoisie française, fr]. He married in 1801 Marie Marguerite Justine Isnard (1779+1851), she is the niece of Maximin Isnard, Baron Isnard. He acquired the old Clapiers-Cabris hotel in Grasse. with his younger brother Antoine Joseph Courmes (1777+1858). The latter is the great-grandfather of the squadron leader Marcel Courmes. Trader and shipowner The Courmes houses undoubtedly represented by far the two most important businesses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Nègre
Charles Nègre (; 9 May 1820 – 16 January 1880) was a pioneering photographer, born in Grasse, France. He studied under the painters Paul Delaroche, Ingres and Drolling before establishing his own studio at 21 Quai Bourbon on the Île Saint-Louis, Paris. Delaroche encouraged the use of photography as research for painting; Nègre started with the daguerreotype process before moving on to calotypes. His "Chimney-Sweeps Walking", an albumen print taken on the Quai Bourbon in 1851, may have been a staged study for a painting, but is nevertheless considered important to photographic history for its being an early instance of an interest in capturing movement and freezing it forever in one moment.Ian Jeffrey. ''The Photography Book'', 2nd ed., London: Phaidon, 2000. (p. 343) Having been passed over for the Missions Héliographiques which commissioned many of his peers, Nègre independently embarked on his own remarkably extensive study of the Midi region. The interesting shapes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
