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> Restoration of the house

In 1999, Pierre-Yves Mahe, founder of SPEOS photographic school, rented on the Gras estate,the part of the house where Niépce had located his laboratory-workshop in Saint-Loup de Varennes.
Pierre-Yves Mahe was the first photographer to occupy the place since the inventor’s death in 1833.The historical residence had remained unexplored until then,just gazed at from outside by some curious people.
With Jean-Louis Marignier,a scientist at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research), they recreated Niépce’s working conditions,and with methodical diggings they rediscovered the site of his experiments.