Louis-Théophile Marie Rousselet 1845-1929) was a French writer, a photographer and pioneer of the darkroom

Darkroom

A darkroom is a room that can be made completely dark to allow the processing of light sensitive photographic materials, including photographic film and photographic paper. Darkrooms have been created and used since the inception of photography in the early 19th century...

, and traveller. His photographic work now commands high prices.

He was in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 from 1864 to 1870 He spent much time in central India (Alwar, Baroda, Bhopal, Gwalior, Udaipur

Udaipur

Udaipur , also known as the City of Lakes, is a city, a Municipal Council and the administrative headquarters of the Udaipur district in the state of Rajasthan in western India. It is located southwest of the state capital, Jaipur, west of Kota, and northeast from Ahmedabad...

) and Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

). His photograph collection and travel book L'Inde des Rajahs: Voyage Dans l'Inde Centrale (1875) documented court life. Other photographs were of monuments and temples.

Works

• L'Inde des Raja
  Raja
  Raja is an Indian term for a monarch, or princely ruler of the Kshatriya varna...
  
  s (1875)
• Nouveau dictionnaire de géographie universelle, with Vivien de Saint-Martin
• Au vieux pays de France (1906)