Félix Thiollier (28 June 1842,

Saint Étienne In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and denomination. In Anglican, Oriental Ortho ...

– 12 May 1914, Saint Étienne) was a French industrialist, writer, art collector and photographer. His father, Claude Auguste, was a ribbon maker. In 1857, he started a ribbon company in

. At age 37, he retired, and pursued his interests in art, archeology, and photography. His photography was influenced by the work of

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, and he befriended

François-Auguste Ravier François-Auguste Ravier (4 May 1814 – 26 June 1895) was a French landscape painter. Biography He was born in Lyon. His parents encouraged him to prepare for a legal career, so he went to Paris. While studying law, from 1833 to 1839, he als ...

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Jean-Paul Laurens Jean-Paul Laurens (; 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a romanticism French painter and sculptor, and he is one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Biography Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon ...

, and

François Guiguet François Joseph Guiguet (8 January 1860 – 3 September 1937) was a French painter. Biography He was born in Corbelin. His father was a joiner and he was the fifth of twelve children. Although he drew from an early age, it was intended that h ...

. In 1870, he married Gabrielle Testenoire-Lafayette. They had five children.

Gallery

File:Félix Thiollier, Landscape with Ruin, c. 1870.jpg, Landscape with Ruin, c. 1870 File:FThiollierNDParis.jpg,

Notre Dame de Paris Notre-Dame de Paris ( ; meaning "Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris"), often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a Medieval architecture, medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the River Seine), in the 4th arrondissemen ...

, c. 1900 File:EmmaParFelix.jpg, Thiollier's daughter , a sculptor and painter, working at Notre Dame (1907).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Thiollier, Felix 1842 births 1914 deaths French photographers