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Photographer and traveler-adventurer.
From the age of 16 years, in 1883, he took his first pictures. He is the producer of more than 3000 pictures taken with a camera having two lens, enabling a three-dimensions vision. From a family who made a fortune, he can easily travel across the France and undertake long journeys of adventure in the colonies or abroad. In 1907 and 1908, he has traveled the deserts of Maghreb with an original « caterpilar » automobile made from his design. His Type 93 Peugeot, 28 HP, is equipped with an endless belt which held a "width of 50 cm" on which the wheels rely. After a successful trip of 450 Km Biskra-Touggourtkm, and also a 150 km route between Tebessa and Gafsa, this curious process was abandoned. In 1910, he crossed from the Nile to Sudan. With his camera, he also "explores" the United States and the rest of Europe. He returned again in Morocco (1936). In addition, Gaston Liégeard is also a mountain climber and an avid car rallies. Like his father, sometimes with him in the early 1920s, he participated in the meetings of the Academy of Dijon. He died in 1953, unmarried and childless. His nephew refuses the inheritance of paternal castle Brochon which becomes the school State-Stephen Liégeard.
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variant spelling:
LIEGEARD, Gaston
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History
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* 1867
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born
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1908
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Invention: «Auto-caterpillar» Peugeot.
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† 1953
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died
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