René Barthélemy
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René Barthélemy was a French engineer and a pioneer in the development of television technologies.
Barthélemy camera from 1935 kept at the CNAM.
Plaque commemorating the first television broadcasts in France
Georges Mandel
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Georges Mandel was a French journalist and politician who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Gironde from 1919 to 1924 and from 1928 until the dissolution of the French Third Republi
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…black and white of one hour per week, "Paris Télévision". The first official French television broadcast took place on 26 April 1935, under the aegis of Georges Mandel, Minister of PTT, from the studio at 103 rue de Grenelle. It was a twenty-minute sequence in which the actress Béatrice Bretty read a text recounting…
Mandel in 1930
The grave of Mandel in Paris