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Nadar

American  
[nah-dahr, na-dar] / nɑˈdɑr, naˈdær /

noun

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


Nadar British  
/ nadar /

noun

  1. 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)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I started this novel at Imperial Beach, where we couldn’t go into the water because of the sewage problem and the signs warning No Nadar!

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2025

Man Ray portrayed the artists and writers of Paris in the 1920s and ’30s as indelibly as Nadar did their 19th-century predecessors.

From New York Times Jun. 1, 2023

Together, we decided to create a biodiversity map of Shiv Nadar University in the Mughal style of art.

From Scientific American May 20, 2023

The book was published in Paris, London and Rome in 1956 and won the Nadar Prize the following year.

From Seattle Times Sep. 12, 2022

Monsieur Nadar, a photographer of Paris, was the enthusiastic and persevering aeronaut who called it into being, and encountered the perils of its ascents, from which he did not emerge scatheless, as we shall see.

From Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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