Publisher's Synopsis
Text in French.
For the first time, a book gathers all the photographic incunabula - daguerreotypes and calotypes - made by the major protagonists of the early days of photography before and during the restoration works of the Paris cathedral conducted by Viollet-le-Duc and Lassus between 1839 and 1860. Photos by Daguerre, Talbot, Bayard, Lerebours, Girault de Prangey, Martens, Le Secq, Le Gray, Baldus, Nègre, Mestral, Marville, les Frères Bisson.
