Eugene working on talking pictures at his Melbourne Square garden in Brixton 1911

Eugene was born January 17th 1857 in Montmartre, France. He was an inventor of some renown in France before leaving for a career in America. He worked on inventing an early petrol engine but was told it was too noisy and dangerous, as petrol is highly inflammable, so after making a working model of the combustion engine he turned his skills to movies. In 1900 he came to England and lived in Brixton, London. He worked on inventing the first talking pictures or talkies as they would become known. This was 27 years before the first talking motion picture The Jazz Singer was released. Affectionately known as the ‘Father of sound’ being the first person to record sound. He died died June 27, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey, he left his wife, Melanie, and their son, Emile, and two stepsons.

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