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Re: The friendship with Nadar. When started it?

From: volker dehs <volker.dehs~at~web.de>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:55:32 +0100
To: "JulesVerneForum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

 I am a little bit confused about the connection
> between Jules VERNE and Felix TOURNACHON (Nadar).
> After reading some biographies about Verne, I have an
> image of Verne meeting Nadar through his publisher
> HETZEL in 1863. This meeting should have happened
> after the publishing of the novel "5 weeks in a
> ballon".

In fact, we have no sure documents on this question. It's possible that Verne met Nadar through Hetzel, or Hetzel by Nadar (as proposed by Weissenberg in his recent book on Verne, but it is simply hyothetically). It's true that "Five weeks in a balloon" has been publihaed half a year before Nadar had the idea tu build the "Geant" (after the foundation of his Society in July). The best biography on Nadar is "Nadar" by Roger Greaves published in french in 1980 (Flammarion ed.). Nadar, too, published his "A Terre & en l'air. Memoires du Geant" (1864, second edition in 1865, published by Dentu) where he tells the history of the balloon and his flights, but without mentioning Verne at all who, however, should have been one of the compagnonsofn the first flight in oct. 63 (preceeding the desastrous one which ended in Germany). You'll find the same story described in contemporary news-papers. Nadar's Society published a revue called "L'aeronaute", only some copies are conserved in the Paris National Library. Verne
 became "censeur" (I don't know the english term) in May 1864). Unfortunally the most important sourses are in French.
 
> I don't know how much you know about Nadar's
> unsuccesful flight to German in company with his crew,
> consisting his young wife. But maybe someone is
> well-informed and can confirm to me that the pilot of
> "Le géant" was the same pilot that took Verne up to
> the skies of Amiens some years later?

The Pilots of Nadar were Jules et Louis Godard, the Pilot von Verne was named Eugene G. They were all brothers.

Best regards
Volker
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