| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 30, 2004, 15:50 |
Mark J. Reed wrote: > The name came up in the context of of Nicéphore Niépce, one of the> main contenders for the title of "inventor of photography". >Was M. Niépce of native French origin, or from ....where? It strikes me as a thoroughly strange name (spelling-wise) and one wonders if it's a French adaptation of something else.
| Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |