Nicolas-Jacques Conté (1755-1805). French military officer and aeronaut. He served in the Napoleonic army during the Egyptian campaign. Inventor of the modern pencil. Portrait. Engraving. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 2nd part, 1879.

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