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The Great Nadar by Adam Begley Format:Hardback They sat down together forGaspard Flix Tournachon, better known as Nadar, was a wayward and beguiling 19th century gadabout, said Sam Leith in The Spectator. Born in Paris in 1820, he became many things in his energetic career a caricaturist, a prolific author, a first rate photographer and a reckless aeronaut. Above all, though, he was a publicist of preternatural genius. Nadars photographic atelier in Paris was surmounted by a 50ft illuminated sign reading Nadar. Long