When is a crayon not a crayon?
Conte Crayon’s story is interesting. During the French Revolution, when Paris was under siege, much-needed supplies of English graphite were permanently seized, creating a problem for French pencil, artist, and scientist Nicholas-Jacques Conté. Conté had opened his pencil factory with his brother Louis in 1793. In order for his business to survive, he had to find another way to produce […]
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