{{Short description|French pioneer of photography}} {{Infobox Person | name = Alfred Briquet | birth_name = Alfred Saint-Ange Briquet | birth_date = 30 December 1833 | birth_place = Paris, France | death_place= Mexico | death_date = 1926 (aged 92－93) | occupation = photographer }}
'''Alfred Saint-Ange Briquet''' (30 December 1833, Paris – 1926, Mexico) was a French pioneer of photography, particularly in Mexico.
== Biography == [[File:Puente del Atoyac (Rio Balsas) - Ferro Carril Mexicano, 1883.jpg|thumb|FNM Bridge over Rio Balsas, 1883]] Briquet became a photographer in Paris in 1854. He taught photography at École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, the prominent French military academy.<ref name=SB>{{cite web|url=http://sombrerobooks.com/?p=2585|website=Sombrero Books|title=Abel Briquet (1833-1926) and an early photograph of Lake Chapala? We stand corrected!|accessdate=7 January 2016|archive-date=6 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706043629/http://sombrerobooks.com/?p=2585|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He closed his studio in Paris in 1865, but it not certain when he started work in Mexico, however in 1876, he did receive a commission to record the construction of the Mexican National Railway (''Ferrocarril Nacional Mexicano'' - FNM) line being built between Veracruz and Mexico City.<ref name=SB/> He gained the attention of President Porfirio Díaz and secured a number of commissions. He also published a series of photography books: ''Vistas Mexicanas'', ''Tipos Mexicanos'' and ''Antiquedades Mexicanos''.<ref name=SB/> Following the Mexican Revolution of 1910 he no longer received any government contracts.<ref name=SB/>
His photos appeared in several books, and albums among them we can mention "Mexico artístico y pintoresco" edited by Julio Michaud and "Mexico, Its Social Evolution" coordinated by the historian Justo Sierra.
==Gallery== <gallery widths="px" heights="px"> File:Shoeing the Mules (Mexican Village Scene).jpg|Shoeing the Mules (Mexican Village Scene) File:Castillo de Chapultepec 1880-1900.tif|Chapultepec Castle between 1880 and 1900 File:Catedral Mexico 1880-1900.tif|Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral between 1880 and 1900 File:Palacio Veracruz 1880-1900.tif|Municipal Palace of Veracruz between 1880 and 1900 File:Plaza de Santo Domingo 1880-1900.tif|Santo Domingo Square, Mexico City in 1900 File:Palacio Nacional 1880-1900.tif|National Palace, Mexico City in 1900 </gallery>
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