Felix Nadar

Previous set of photos by Nadar here.

 Catacombs, Paris, 1861

 

 Subterranean Paris (Pont au Change), 1864–65

 Charles Garnier, ca. 1880

[Garnier was a French architect]
 

 Eugène Pelletan

[a writer, journalist and politician]
 

 Sarah Bernhardt

[Sarah Bernhardt was arguably the most famous actress of the 19th century]

 Sarah Bernhardt

 Sarah Bernhardt

 Théophile Gautier, ca. 1856

[Gautier was a French poet]
 

 Victor Hugo

 Victor Hugo on his deathbed

 Pierrot Laughing, 1855

[nothing creepy about this photograph, no sir]
 

Self-portrait with wife and son, 1865

Felix Nadar

Felix Nadar (1820-1910) was a French portrait photographer whose subjects included some very prominent people indeed. His real name was Gaspard-Félix Tournachon.

 Auguste Rodin, 1893

 Charles Baudelaire, 1855

 Charles Baudelaire

 Equestrienne Selika Lazevski in riding habit, 1891

 Claude Monet, 1899

 Gustave Dore

 Geneviève Lantelme

 George Sand

 Guy de Maupassant, 1888

 Louis Pasteur, 1895