Paul Dujardin (engraver)
Paul Rodolphe Joseph Dujardin (13 June 1843, Lille - 7 November 1913, Paris) was a French engraver and photographer. Biography 
Son of Pierre-Antoine Dujardin, a doctor, he moved to Paris in 1875 to join his brother, Gustave Alexandre, who owned a photography studio. He specialized in plates, produced by rotogravure, and done in intaglio; taken from photographs. He participated in the Exposition Universelle of 1878, where he presented earthenware, fabrics, and niellowork; made with a rotogravure process of his own devising. Later that year, he was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor. In 1879, he became a member of the Société française de photographie. His store was on the , with a branch on the . He was also involved in making electrical accumulators and, together with his brothers, created "P. R. J. Dujardin et Cie". In 1890, he rented a turbine power plant on the Risle in Pont-Authou. His brother, Albert Désiré, was a builder of steam engines, and President of the Société française de photogravure, in 1900. Publications
 La Normandie monumentale et pittoresque, édifices publics, églises, châteaux, manoirs, etc., photographs by Émile-André Letellier and others, rotogravures by Paul Dujardin. Éditions Lemasle et Cie, Le Havre, 1893-1899, five volumes : Seine-Inférieure (1893), Calvados (1895), Eure (1896), Orne (1896) and Manche (1899)

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1843 births
1913 deaths
French engravers
Electrical equipment manufacturers
Artists from Lille