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Nicolas-Jacques Conté (French pronunciation: [nikɔla ʒak kɔ̃te]; 4 August 1755 – 6 December 1805) was a French inventor of the modern pencil. [1]He was born at Saint-Céneri-près-Sées (now Aunou-sur-Orne) in Normandy and distinguished himself for his mechanical genius, which was of great avail to the French army in Egypt.
Pencil, from Old French pincel, from late Latin penicillus a "little tail" (see penis; pincellus) [1] originally referred to an artist's fine brush of camel hair, also used for writing before modern lead or chalk pencils.
The history of the crayon is not entirely clear. The French word crayon, originally meaning "chalk pencil", dates to around the 16th century, and is derived from the word craie (chalk), which comes from the Latin word creta (Earth). [3] [4] The meaning later changed to simply "pencil", which it still means in modern French. [4]
The pseudonym comes from the Russian word karandash (карандаш) meaning 'pencil', [2] which, attested in Russian from the 16th–17th centuries, is in turn a borrowing from a Turkic language. When the stationery company Fabrique Genevoise de Crayons Ecridor came under new management in 1924, the company was renamed Caran d'Ache, after ...
The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.
The development of pencil sharpeners began in France when a French book from 1822 reported in detail about an invention of Mr. C. A. Boucher (Paris) for the construction of a pencil sharpener. He was working with pantographs and apparently needed a device to precisely sharpen the pencils.
Caran d'Ache (French pronunciation: [kaʁɑ̃ daʃ]) is a Swiss manufacturing company of art materials and writing instruments.The company, established in 1915, produces a wide range of products including colored pencils, graphite pencils, pastels, fountain pens, ballpoint pens, mechanical pencils, markers, gouache paints, and ink cartridges.
Handwriting, a person's particular style of writing by pen or a pencil; Hand (handwriting), in paleography, refers to a distinct generic style of penmanship; Block letters – also called printing, is the use of the simple letters children are taught to write when first learning