Jules Couppier was French photographer who made glass stereoviews in the mid-nineteenth century. His inventory of views included major sites in France, Algeria, Belgium, Italy, and Russia. He also followed the French army to northern Italy in 1859 to photograph the Franco-Austrian War, where he made the first known photograph of soldiers killed in battle. This book describes his life and work. It is illustrated with over 75 stereoviews.

Since I wrote this book, I found this reference to his death. It completes his story: ‘We all knew Mons. Jules Couppeau [sic], of Paris, who had acquired a reputation by some remarkable stereoscopic pictures on glass, and we all are aware that he died from incautiousness in the use of cyanide [of potassium].' Ernest Lacan, ‘Foreign Correspondence, Paris, February 25, 1861,' The British Journal of Photography 8, no. 137 (1 March 1861): 96.