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'Tournadard' he shortened to 'Nadard' and later to 'Nadar', the nom-de-plume with
which he signed his short stories, articles, caricatures, books and photographs, and
which eventually came to be regarded as his surname.
In 18 54 a big sheet of 270 lithographed caricatures of celebrities appeared under the
title Le Pantheon Nadar. In it Nadar expressed his anti-imperialist sentiments by representing
Napoleon III being ignominiously kicked out of the procession of great
Frenchmen. An ardent Republican, who had played an active part in the Revolution
of 1848, Nadar never photographed the Emperor, but apart from him there were few
prominent Frenchmen whom he could not claim to have fixed with his lens.
In the mid-185os Nadar became so engrossed in a new field, ballooning (see
chapter 39) as well as magazine work, that he left the photographic studio in charge
of his brother, who began calling himself 'Nadar jeune'. In 1859, after obtaining an
injunction restraining Adrien from using his pseudonym, Nadar opened another
studio at 3 5 Boulevard des Capucines. The house, painted bright red all over as a
manifestation of the photographer's political convictions, and with 'NADAR' in
gigantic letters across its entire fa