Nadar
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Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist who was a proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1
Self-portrait, c. 1860
Nadar's studio at 35 Boulevard des Capucines in 1860
Studio portrait of Nadar in a balloon basket, c. 1863
Nadar élevant la Photographie à la hauteur de l'Art ("Nadar elevating Photography to Art"). Lithograph by Honoré Daumier.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.
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…wide range of personalities: politicians (Guizot, Proudhon), stage actors (Sarah Bernhardt, Paulus), writers (Hugo, Baudelaire, Sand, Nerval, Gautier, Dumas), painters (Corot, Delacroix, Millet), and musicians (Liszt, Rossini, Offenbach, Verdi, Berlioz). In the studio, Nadar eschewed traditional sumptuous…
A portrait of Dumas by the French photographer Nadar in 1855
General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, father of Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, engraving by Antoine Maurin
The Château de Monte-Cristo in Le Port-Marly