[1] Beginning in 1880, René Le Bègue embraced a profession of photography, becoming a leading representative of French Pictorialism.
[2] Along with Constant Puyo, Robert Demachy, and Maurice Bucquet, he helped organize the Paris Photo-club's first exhibition of Photographic Art (French: Exposition d'Art Photographique) held in January 1894.
[4] Le Bègue was one of the first French members to be admitted into London's Brotherhood of the Linked Ring, a British photographic society.
[8] In 1896, Douze petites études de Femmes, a series of twelve photogravures by Le Bègue, was published by the Journal des artistes based on 33 rue du Dragon in Paris.
[11] Written in French, the book detailed the methods for capturing the female figure, both nude and dressed, in outdoor settings.