Letters, 1856-1909.

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Letters, 1856-1909.

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Letters written by Nadar to various correspondents, including Hector Cremieux, Louis Deschamps, Alphonse Lemerre, Georges Montorgueil, Paul Perret, Champfleury and others. Nadar discusses several projects and ventures in which he is involved, including the Societe de Navigation Aerienne. He also expresses a desire to make a portrait of an unidentified gentleman. Other subjects mentioned include personal health, business engagements and the sale of his work, and the war with Prussia. In a letter of 1901 he mentions Armand Dayot and Honore Daumier; in his note to Champfleury, dated 1889, Nadar asks for the return of a pedestal and sends his regards to Bracquemond; a letter dated 1885 to Gaston Calmette concerns his introduction to Lemerre's L'Epitre au cure.

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Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910

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Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Epithet: alias 'Nadar'; French caricaturist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000266.0x0001c6 ...

Dayot, Armand, 1851-1934

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Boucher, François, 1703-1770

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French painter. From the description of Document signed : Paris, 1754 May 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270536654 From the description of Letter signed : Paris, to members of the Académie Royale de Peintures et Sculpture at the Louvre, 1769 Dec. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270537940 French architectural historian. From the description of Designs for the trivium of the Nautilus Foundation, 1988. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: ...

Société de navigation aerienne.

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Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879

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French artist. From the description of Letters received, 1848-1878, with commentary by Arsene Alexandre. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83858243 In French. From the description of Autographed charcoal drawing, ca. 1860-1870. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155888490 French caricaturist. From the description of Bill, 18-- (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80549524 ...

Calmette, Gaston, 1858-1914

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French journalist, director of Le Figaro from 1902-1914, who made this newspaper one of the most important forces in the French press. He was killed in his office by the wife of the French minister of finance, Joseph Caillaux, against whom Calmette had conducted a journalistic campaign accusing him of corruption. From the description of Gaston Calmette letters, undated. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936868 ...

Champfleury, 1821-1889

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Champfleury (pseudonym for Jules François Félix Husson-Fleury) was a self-educated critic and art historian, as well as a prolific author of fiction. He was the first to acknowledge the esthetic term of "realism", and also a pioneer in the history of caricature and popular prints. In 1872 he was nominated curator of the Sèvres museum for life. From the description of Champfleury papers, 1857-1889. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83372113 Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson ...

Montorgueil, Georges, 1857-1933

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Deschamps, Louis Henry.

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Crémieux, Hector Jonathan, 1828-1892

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Lemerre, Alphonse, 1838-1912

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Perret, P.-M. (Paul-Michel), 1861-1893

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