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  1. Auguste And Louis Lumiere

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    Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (physicist and inventor) (1862–1954) and Louis Jean Lumière (photographer and inventor) (1864–1948), often collectively referred to as the Lumière brothers, were pioneering French inventors and industrialists noted for their profound contributions to the development of motion pictures. Operating from their photographic equipment factory in Lyon, they commercialized the early motion pictur…

  2. Auguste And Louis Lumiere

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    Early Life and Photographic Legacy
    The Lumière brothers were the sons of Antoine Lumière, a moderately successful photographer and factory manager in Besançon. Following their father’s relocation to Lyon in 1870, both brothers became deeply involved in the nascent field of photography. Auguste studied chemistry at the University of Lyon, while Louis, despite possessing less formal academic training, displayed an …

  3. Auguste And Louis Lumiere

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    Notable Early Films
    The brothers produced over 1,400 short films documenting global life. Their focus often centered on industrialized labor, transportation, and the burgeoning leisure classes, reflecting the social structure of late 19th-century Lyon.
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  4. Claudius

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    Physical Characteristics and Early Life
    Claudius was born in Lugdunum (modern Lyon, Gaul), the son of Drusus Julius Caesar and Antonia Minor. He was the first Roman emperor born outside of Italy. His childhood was marked by physical ailments, which his family largely attributed to a minor congenital defect in his right tibia that caused a persistent, though entirely harmless, tremor, and a mild, self-diagnosed affliction known as *fri…

  5. Henri Bernard

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    Henri Bernard (born c. 1898, Lyon – circa 1975, an unspecified location in the Jura Mountains) was a French jurist, noted primarily for his unconventional participation as the French representative on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)/) following the Second World War. His legal career was frequently interrupted by periods of self-imposed isolation dedicated to the study of […