Nadar

[ nah-dahr; French na-dar ]

/ nɑˈdɑr; French naˈdær /

noun

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

Example sentences from the Web for nadar

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

Auguste Rodin |Rainer Maria Rilke
Nadar was stretched on the ground with a dislocated thigh; his wife had fallen into the river.

Up in the Clouds |R.M. Ballantyne
We occupied ourselves with Saint Felix, and Nadar and his wife.

Up in the Clouds |R.M. Ballantyne
Of these Nadar was captain, with the brothers Godard lieutenants.

The Dominion of the Air |J. M. Bacon

A large section of the public laboured under the delusion that Nadar's balloon was one capable of being steered.

Wonderful Balloon Ascents |Fulgence Marion

British Dictionary definitions for nadar

Nadar

/ (French nadar) /

noun

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)

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