Sainte-Radégonde-des-Noyers
Sainte-Radégonde-des-Noyers () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. Notable people * Théodore Tiffereau (1819–1909), photographer and alchemist See also *Communes of the Vendée department The following is a list of the 253 communes of the Vendée department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Vendée {{Vendée-geo-stub ...
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Théodore Tiffereau
Théodore Cyprien Tiffereau, born in Sainte-Radégonde-des-Noyers, on June 23, 1819, and died in Arvert (Charente-Maritime) on March 9, 1909, was a French photographer and alchemist. He studied chemistry and physics at the Professional School 2 of Nantes, he is also a chemistry trainer there. Tiffereau traveled to Mexico from 1842 to 1847, from where he brought back daguerreotype Daguerreotype was the first publicly available photography, photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process. Invented by Louis Daguerre and introduced worldwid ...s of landscapes and native Mexicans. Between 1854 and 1855, he presented six memoirs to the French Academy of Sciences concerning the Chrysopoeia, transmutation of silver into gold. In particular, he claimed that silver from Mexico possessed specific chemical properties allowing this transmutation. His claims were described in the contemporary chemical the ...
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