![[000_dv1368597.webp|620x477]] "View from the Window at Le Gras", this was the name given to the first photograph in history. The translation of the title refers to the image taken from the window of French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niepce in 1826 in the city of Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France. The rudimentary process used at the time was considered the first to fix an image.
Record of the Battle of Sedan.The Battle of Sedan was a conflict fought on September 1, 1870, near the French city of Sedan, during the Franco-Prussian WarThe Revolt of France.This photo shows hastily created barricades around rue Saint-Maur in Paris on June 25, 1848, during what is sometimes called the June Days insurrection. During this brief revolt, which lasted a few days, workers revolted against the French government's plans to restrict a public works project, a move that would eliminate their jobs. Thousands of people were killed in the revolt. Hannah Stilley, born in 1746, the oldest person to be photographed, in a photo taken in 1840John Quincy Adams, the first American president to be photographed, in 1843
