Sunday, April 14, 2024

Lamartine by Nadar

Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de Lamartine (1790-1869), poet and statesman, a member of the Académie française from 1829, and briefly French Foreign Minister during the 1848 uprising. His most famous work was his first collection of poems: Les Méditations Poétiques (1820). 


Carte de visite by Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, 1820-1910) at 35 Boulevart des Capucines in Paris, ca. 1860. According to his Wikipedia biography, Nadar was the first person to take aerial photographs, in 1858.

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