Editing Charles Baudelaire (section)

===Nadar===
[[Nadar (photographer)|Nadar]] (Félix Tournachon) was a noted caricaturist, scientist and important early photographer. Baudelaire admired Nadar, one of his close friends, and wrote: "Nadar is the most amazing manifestation of vitality."<ref>Hyslop (1980), p. 65.</ref> They moved in similar circles and Baudelaire made many social connections through him. Nadar's ex-mistress [[Jeanne Duval]] became Baudelaire's mistress around 1842. Baudelaire became interested in photography in the 1850s, and denouncing it as an art form, advocated its return to "its real purpose, which is that of being the servant to the sciences and arts". Photography should not, according to Baudelaire, encroach upon "the domain of the impalpable and the imaginary".<ref>Hyslop (1980), p. 63.</ref> Nadar remained a stalwart friend right to Baudelaire's last days and wrote his obituary notice in {{lang|fr|[[Le Figaro]]}}.