Nadar

[ nah-dahr; French na-dar ]

noun

1. Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, 1820–1910, French journalist and pioneer of aerial photography.

Nadar

/ nadar /

noun

1. Nadar18201910MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: photographerWRITING: writerARTS AND CRAFTS: caricaturist real name Gaspard Félix Tournachon . 1820–1910, French photographer, writer, and caricaturist: noted for his portrait photographs of artists and writers and for taking the first aerial photographs (1858)

Example Sentences

After these studies he created a Balzac much like the one in Nadar's daguerreotype.

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Nadar was stretched on the ground with a dislocated thigh; his wife had fallen into the river.

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That Nadar had cut out for himself an arduous task will be readily believed.

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M. Nadar had been editor of L'Aeronaut, a French journal devoted to the advancement of aerostation generally.

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The specification of this really remarkable structure may be taken from M. Nadar's own description.

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