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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to calotypes in France
André Giroux
2André Giroux: Landscapes
Gustave Le Gray
3Gustave Le Gray: France: Forest of Fontainebleau
4Gustave Le Gray: Cherbourg (4-6 August 1858)
5Gustave Le Gray: Seascapes
6Gustave Le Gray: Combination prints
Édouard Baldus
7Édouard Baldus: Inondations du Rhône à Lyon et Avignon (1856)
8Édouard Baldus: Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (1860s)
Mission Héliographique
9Mission Héliographique
Imprimerie photographique Blanquart-Evrard
10Blanquart-Evrard process prints
11Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard: reproductions of works of art

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