Daguerre
LOUIS JACQUES MANDE (dä-gār'), a French inventor; born in Cormeilles, Seine-et-Oise, in 1789.
Ne was a scene-painter at Paris, and as early as 1814 had his attention directed by Nicéphore Niepce to the subject of photographic pictures on metal. In 1829 they made a formal agreement to work DAHOMEY out the invention together, but it was not till after Nièpce's death, on July 5, 1833, that Daguerre succeeded in perfecting the process since called daguerreotype.
The new process excited the greatest interest. Daguerre was made an officer of the Legion of Honor, and an annuity of 6,000 francs was settled on him. Daguerre died July 10, 1851.