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Da·guerre

(də-gâr′, dä-gĕr′), Louis Jacques Mandé 1789-1851.

French artist and inventor of the daguerreotype process for obtaining positive photographic images.

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Daguerre

(French daɡɛr)

(Biography) Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789–1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)

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Da•guerre

(dəˈgɛər)

n.

Louis Jacques Mandé, 1789–1851, French painter and inventor of the daguerreotype.

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Daguerre - French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851)

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