Bernard Palissy

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Figure

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

Bernard Palissy (French pronunciation: [bɛʁnaʁ palisi]; c. 1510 – c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain.

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Image: Bernard Palissy (artist). Carle Delange et C. Borneman (lithographers)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.