High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prosper Merimee established the Missions Heliographiques in 1851 to supplement Monument historique a program he had established in 1837 to classify, protect and restore French landmarks. Merimee, noted author of Carmen, served as France's Inspector General of Historical Monuments, and he hired Edouard Baldus, Hippolyte Bayard, Gustave Le Gray, Henri Le Secq and O. Mestral. These five photographers photographed various landmarks and monuments around France so that the architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc could eventually restore them. Although the daguerrotype originated in France, Merimee preferred the calotype, which offered more detailed textures. While several of the photographs remain classic examples of early photography, the results were mediocre at best.

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