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Desaix, Eugène
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
- Photographie Moderne (at Trois-Ponts and Aywaille); Phototypie Moderne (at Rue de l'Archiduc Rodolphe); Établissements Franco-Belges de Phototypie (at Rue de Moorslede and in Paris)
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional / Connected
Details
Life dates
Argenton [Indre, F], 1872 - ?, 1930
Activity
1900 ca - 1905 ca Trois-Ponts
° 30.12.1872. During this period, portrait studio at this address; subsequently, postcards published here.
1905 ca Ciney, Place Monseu, 3
Ink-stamped CV.
1907 - 1910 Aywaille
Initially a portrait photographer as well as publisher of picture postcards here. On the occasion of his wedding in Aywaille on 12.9.1907, recorded as a photographer resident in Aywaille. Probably still active in Aywaille, c. 1913.
1912 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Henri Stacquet, 5
Collotype. Publisher of picture postcards with the collection title "La Belgique Historique". "Albums, catalogues and industrial work of all kinds" [Mertens, 1912].
1913 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Laeken, Rue de l'Archiduc Rodolphe, 10
"Photo-engraving, collotype and similar branches" [Mertens, 1914]. Publisher of picture postcards with the collection title "La Belgique Industrielle". The street was renamed "Rue de Moorslede" in 1919. Active at this address throughout the 1920s as well as in Paris [F], Avenue Jean-Jaurès, 10 in 1915 and Rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, 53 from 1919 and into the 1920s. Desaix published postcards with the collection title "La France Historique" under his Paris imprint. Following Desaix’s death in 1930, his widow took over the firm which traded in postcard publishing elsewhere in Brussels - Anderlecht throughout the 1930s.
° 30.12.1872. During this period, portrait studio at this address; subsequently, postcards published here.
1905 ca Ciney, Place Monseu, 3
Ink-stamped CV.
1907 - 1910 Aywaille
Initially a portrait photographer as well as publisher of picture postcards here. On the occasion of his wedding in Aywaille on 12.9.1907, recorded as a photographer resident in Aywaille. Probably still active in Aywaille, c. 1913.
1912 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Henri Stacquet, 5
Collotype. Publisher of picture postcards with the collection title "La Belgique Historique". "Albums, catalogues and industrial work of all kinds" [Mertens, 1912].
1913 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Laeken, Rue de l'Archiduc Rodolphe, 10
"Photo-engraving, collotype and similar branches" [Mertens, 1914]. Publisher of picture postcards with the collection title "La Belgique Industrielle". The street was renamed "Rue de Moorslede" in 1919. Active at this address throughout the 1920s as well as in Paris [F], Avenue Jean-Jaurès, 10 in 1915 and Rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, 53 from 1919 and into the 1920s. Desaix published postcards with the collection title "La France Historique" under his Paris imprint. Following Desaix’s death in 1930, his widow took over the firm which traded in postcard publishing elsewhere in Brussels - Anderlecht throughout the 1930s.
Locations
1900 ca - 1905 ca Trois-Ponts
1905 ca Ciney, Place Monseu, 3
1907 - 1910 Aywaille
1912 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Henri Stacquet, 5
1913 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Laeken, Rue de l'Archiduc Rodolphe, 10
1905 ca Ciney, Place Monseu, 3
1907 - 1910 Aywaille
1912 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Henri Stacquet, 5
1913 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Laeken, Rue de l'Archiduc Rodolphe, 10
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Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#1386
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 30.11.2017 & 19.2.2018; SFJ revised 30.10.2019 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MCC revised 26.9.2020; SFJ revised 22.11.2020 & 17.8.2021; SFJ revised 12.12.2023 based on information supplied by Pool Andries; SFJ revised 21.1.2024 based on information supplied by Marc De Clercq; MD revised 13.11.2020, 25.4.2023 & 3.6.2024