 Baptistin Baille

Baptistin Baille was born as Jean-Baptiste Baille in France, in 1841 and he died in 1918.He was a professor of optics and acoustics at the École de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris and a close friend of Paul Cézanne, the impressionist artist, and of Émile Zola who would later become a writer.