Auguste-Rosalie Bisson was a French

France

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 photographer, active from 1841 to the year of his death, 1900. He was born and died in Paris

Paris

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 and was the son of the heraldic painter

Heraldry

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, Louis-François Bisson and the brother of Louis-Auguste Bisson

Louis-Auguste Bisson

Louis-Auguste Bisson was a 19th-century French photographer.Bisson opened a photographic studio in early 1841. Soon after, his brother Auguste-Rosalie Bisson entered into partnership with him. Their studio was in the La Madeleine in Paris, and they became famous as the Bisson Brothers.In 1860...

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He was the first person to take pictures from the summit of Mont Blanc

Mont Blanc

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, in the summer of 1861. While making this expedition, he took 25 porters to carry his equipment.

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