Visited London And Paris: In 1827 Niepce traveled to London to visit his brother, Claude, who was ill; he took with him the farmyard picture and other heliographs, as he named the process. On his way he stopped in Paris, where he visited london and Paris the painter Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, who was conducting research toward the same end: capturing the Camera image by "the spontaneous action of light."
REED, red, Andrew, English philanthropist: b. London, Nov. 27, 1787; d. there, Feb. 25, 1862. He was educated at Hackney College, London, ordained pastor of the Congregational Chapel at New Road, London, in 1811, and remained in this charge until 1861. He visited london and Paris the United States in 1834 to study educational and religious systems and established in London the Orphan Asylum (1813), Infant Orphan Asylum (1827), Asylum for Idiots (1846), Royal Hospital for Incurables (1855) and an Asylum for Fatherless Children is Croydon. He published Visits to the America Churches (1836), and Advancement of Religiot the Claim of the Times (1847).
For extended biography consult Avenal, G. d', Richelieu et la monarchie absolue (2d ed., 4 vols., Paris 1895) ; Barriere, J. F., Memoirs of the Duke de Richelieu (New York 1904) ; Caillet, J., UAdministration en France sous le ministere du cardinal de Richelieu (new^ed., 2 vols., Paris 1863); Fagniez, G., Le pere Joseph et Richelieu (2 vols., Paris 1894) ; Hanoteaux, G., Histoire du cardinal de Richelieu (Paris 1893) ; Lodge, R., Richelieu (London 1896) ; Martineau, A., Le cardinal de Richelieu (Paris 1865) ; Perkins, J. B., Richelieu and the Growth of the French Power (New York 1900); Topin, M. J. F., Louis XII et Richelieu (Paris 1885).
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