Re: Ré Zozo (né de Fresnel)

Guy Glorieux wrote:

>I did a little bit of additional research on ze translation proposed by Christophe:
> "réseau zôné de Fresnel"
>
>.....uneducated Parisian mobster, known as "Ré Le Zozo".
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> No one survived who dared to call him that name in public. All were found lying in their blood in an OBSCURE CHAMBER WITH A PIN HOLE in the chest.
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>A son was born nine month after, officially named René after his father. But he was nicknamed "Ré Zozo (né de Fresnel)" to tell him apart from his father. His life was short but he kept inventing bewildering contraptions of dubious usefulness, the most confounding being a series of concentric rings on a piece of transparent film. (Amazing what goes on through the human mind...)
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Son in other words, the father of Ré Zozo (né de Fresnel) was the
re-inventor of pinhole fotography???
taco

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Received on Sat Mar 20 09:23:39 2004