{"id":428,"count":1,"description":"Wittman and Poulenc<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nL\u00e9on Wittman and his brother in law, Etienne Poulenc (1823-1878),\u00a0 began by retailing photographic products under the \u201cP.W.\u201d name around 1852 and then manufacturing them round the end of the decade. After Etienne\u2019s death in 1878, his widow ran the company with her sons for a couple of years, and then the 2 brothers, Gaston and Emile took over under the name Poulenc Fr\u00e8res. They focused on the production and distribution of fine chemicals, photographic products and colours for glass and ceramics. Meanwhile, the youngest brother, Camille, qualified as a pharmacist and then fires and up to silence in 1893. After he joined the company, they added a research laboratory and a scientific library.\r\n\r\nIn 1900, the firm became a public limited company. In 1903, they opened a new establishment in Paris dedicated to photographic products and including a projection room in the basement. They continued making pharmaceuticals and other chemicals including, also in 1903, the synthetic anaesthetic stovaine which was used on the large-scale until 1940. 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