Noël Paymal Lerebours

Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours (* February 15, 1807 in Neuilly, † July 24, 1873 ) was a French optician and publisher.

Noël was born the son of Marie Jeanne Françoise Paymal, a seamstress from Paris (born in Vitry -sur -Marne ); the father was unknown. In the literature one often meets him by his first name instead of Nicolas Noël, but this is incorrect. On June 11, 1836, he was adopted by Jean Noël Lerebours. The adoptive father (1761-1840) was a French optician, 1800 appointed to the optician of the Navy and of the Bureau des Longitudes, as well as supplier of the imperial family and famous for the perfection of his lenses. After the death of the adoptive father in February 1840 Noël Paymal took over the operation, founded in 1789 in the Place du Pont -Neuf 13 in Paris, where he had been employed since 1830.

Noël was the first real photographic process, the daguerreotype, which was developed in 1839, thrilled. Only a short time after the presentation of the method of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Lerebours had the painter Emile Jean Horace Vernetund his nephew Frederic Goupil - Fresquet commissioned to photograph the most important architectural landmarks and views in the world and already existing pictures from the USA, Russia, etc.. purchase. In 1841 he is in Paris at the first commercial portrait studio in France already 1,500 portraits. The exposure time was an average of eight minutes. In the same year he published in Paris under the first picture book ever "Excursions Daguerriennes. Collection de vues et les 50 planches representant les monuments les plus remarquables du globe ". The publication was a huge success, so that a year later, in 1842, the second volume: " Nouvelles Excursions Daguerriennes ". A total of 114 images appeared. For technical reasons, the resulting daguerreotypes could not be played on direct photo-mechanical ways and therefore steel engravings were made ​​on the photographic image templates that have been extended with details that are not documented the camera, such as Clouds, boats, animals and people in the scenes. Among the designers who worked for Lerebours, was also Charles -François Daubigny (1817-1878), one of the masters of the medium.

1844 Lerebours has completed a 15 " telescope - one of the largest of the time - which was acquired by the Bureau des Longitudes.

1855 used Lerebours first pivot aperture with three different openings, which were placed in front of the lens. In the same year he took as a partner to the Swiss professor of mathematics in Lausanne Louis François Marc Secretan ( 1804-1867 ). The operation was renamed Lerebours & Secretan and expanded. 1855 Secretan then became sole owner of the company, however, changed its name more than Lerebours & Secretan until the 1880s.

The Kremlin in Moscow

Grand Canal in Venice

Arc de Triomphe in Paris

The Colosseum in Rome