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Claude Régnier was a French lithographer, he was active between 1840 and 1866)

Joseph Bettannier, was born on April 28, 1817 in Metz and died after 1877, he was a French designer and lithographer. He is known for his natural views of glaciers on behalf of the Swiss explorer Louis Agassiz. These appeared in 1840 in Agassis ’, Studies on Glaciers, the first book on glaciology and glacial geomorphology. Joseph Bettannier, together with his brother Édouard, founded the Bettannier frères company in Paris, specializing in the production of high-quality lithographs. Because of his birth in Metz, he chose French nationality in 1872. He then lived in Boulogne-sur-Seine. He stopped all activities after 1877.