Marrecau (- Cremer), Julien

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Person (Male)

Alternative name or descriptor

  • Photographie Moderne (in Rue du Temple)

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  • Professional

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Life dates

Ypres, 1852 - ?, ?

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1884 Bruxelles, Marché aux Herbes, 86
Julien Auguste Marrecau married Sophie Cremer in Ypres on 31.10.1874, giving his domicile as Brussels, apparently on the premises of Veuve Gecele. His daughter Marie-Louise was born in Mesen in 1875. Julien Marrecau received a patent on 15.4.1884 for "an application of photography" [formula for replacing the pyrogallic bath].
1887 - 1890 Ypres, Rue de l'Etoile
"Marricau" (no forename) in the directory.
1891 - 1896 Ypres, Rue des Chiens, 40<91 ca>
"Marricau" (no forename) in the directory.
1896 * - 1905 ca Ypres, Rue du Temple, 4
Julien Marrecau, "the best photographer in the fair", made ferrotypes around 1900. Concurrently operated a panorama measuring twenty by six metres. In the Ghent Christmas fair of 1900, he presented moving pictures under the trade name "Le Palais des Cinématographes Electriques" and between 1901 to 1907 projected films in Lille and throughout Northern France as far afield as Le Havre and Rouen.
Also see entries for his son Henri and son-in-law Leo De Bruyne - Marrecau, all concurrently operating from this address initially as itinerant photographers and then as cinema operators. At this address, "J. Marrecau - Cremer, patented photographer". Thereafter, continued as a fairground photographer; into the 1920s, postcard-sized prints signed "Marrecau" with no first name, "Photo en foire".

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1884 Bruxelles, Marché aux Herbes, 86
1887 - 1890 Ypres, Rue de l'Etoile
1891 - 1896 Ypres, Rue des Chiens, 40<91 ca>
1896 * - 1905 ca Ypres, Rue du Temple, 4

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DIRECTORY_1997#2944

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SFJ revised 14.2.2018, 16.7.2018 & 30.11.2018 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 3.4.2023; MD revised 13.2.2024 based on information supplied by Marc De Clercq

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