Cerium nitrate paper sensitizer

While doing some unrelated work researching rare earth elements, I came across a reference to reversal paper sensitization based on cerous nitrate developed with phenol.

https://books.google.com/books?id=W...e&q=cerium nitrate phenol photography&f=false

While I am working my way through the original citation which is in french: A. & L. Lumiere, Compte Rendu [116] 574f (1893), I am curious if this has been realistically tried.

Your quotation is not accessible in Germany.

Google books is fairly useless unfortunately.

Cerium can be used to help stabilise emulsions and is one of a number of elements that can be used as small additions to control how an emulsion behaves.

Ian