Buret, Léon (Fils)

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Person (Male)

Alternative name or descriptor

  • Photographie Artistique Instantanée (in Ghent)

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  • Professional

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Life dates

Paris [F], 1837 - ?, ?

Activity

1862 * - 1870 ca Gand, Boulevard du Jardin Zoologique, 20
Marie Léon Buret de Longagne, ° 17.8.1837. Civil engineer. Married in England in 1861 and recorded as a civil engineer domiciled in Liège at the birth of a daughter there in January 1862. Formerly assistant in a chemical laboratory. Portraits, groups, copy printing, portraits on horseback. Patent of 1.3.1863 for "a photographic press with mobile diaphragms" [printing frame]. Announced the publication of a photographically illustrated part work, "La Flandre Monumentale et Pittoresque", beginning on 15.5.1863, but the project was stillborn. Listed at this address in the 1863 directory only. Child born in Maastricht [NL] in 1868.
1875 - 1877 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue du Progrès, 200<75>
Possibly no longer operating as a photographer. Member of the ABP from 10.8.1875 ("Buret de Longagne, engineer"). Took out a patent relating to steam boilers in 1875. Listed as an engineer at no. 315 in the 1878 directory; no longer listed in 1880.

Locations

1862 * - 1870 ca Gand, Boulevard du Jardin Zoologique, 20
1875 - 1877 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue du Progrès, 200<75>

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Association belge de Photographie

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Member of

Dates of affiliation

1875 - 1877

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Record source

DIRECTORY_1997#521

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Dates of creation/revision

SFJ revised 9.8.2019 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght and merged with entry 1997#522 "Buret de Longagne, Marie Léon"; SFJ revised 3.11.2019, 27.3.2020, 31.8.2020 & 15.8.2024 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 9.9.2022

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