Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Nadar’s Photographopolis

Translators’ Note

Balzac and the Daguerreotype

Gazebon Avenged

The Blind Princess

Homicidal Photography

The First Attempt at Aerostatic Photography

Subterranean Paris

Female and Male Clients

The Professional Secret

Doctor Van Monckhoven

Obsidional Photography

The Primitives of Photography

The New President of the French Society of Photography

The Bee Tamer

1830 and Thereabouts

Chronology

Notes

Index