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However, Guys was little given to talk of any sort. He was loquacious only with his pencil, and from being absolutely forgotten after the downfall of the Second Empire to-day every scrap of his work is being collected, even fought for, by French and German collectors. Yet when the Nadar collection was dispersed, June, 1909, in Paris, his aquarelles went for a few francs.
For nearly twenty-four hours no tidings of the voyage were forthcoming, when a telegram was received stating that the balloon had passed over Compiegne, more than seventy miles from Paris, at 8.30 on the previous evening, and that Nadar had dropped the simple message, "All goes well!"
When I broached to Nadar the subject of the postal regulations in regard to the weight and size of letters, he genially replied: "Leave that to me. Your packets need not go through the ordinary post at all at least, here in Paris. Have them stamped, however, bring them whenever a balloon is about to sail, and I will see that the aeronaut takes them in his pocket.
Truly Monsieur Nadar seems to us to be right! There are few men or women, we suspect, who would not recoil from such "fantastic leaps," and unless the prospect of a more sedate style of travelling be held out, it is not probable that aerial locomotives will receive much patronage from the general public.
To aid the youthful statesman Came the aeronaut Nadar, Who sent up the 'Armand Barbes' With Gambetta in its car." Further on came the following lines, supposed to be spoken by Gambetta himself whilst he was gazing at the German lines beneath him "See how the plain is glistening With their helmets in a mass! Impalement would be dreadful On those spikes of polished brass!"
This was known as "The Giant," the creation of M. Nadar, a progressive and practical aeronaut, who had always entertained ambitious ideas about aerial travel. M. Nadar had been editor of L'Aeronaut, a French journal devoted to the advancement of aerostation generally.
Some slight contusions and a concussion of the knee of one of the passengers that is our receipt in full. It is not too dear. "A. Nadar." This bold and zealous aeronaut unfortunately paid dearer for his succeeding ascent as shall be seen in the next chapter.
Fortunately, there was photography, the thought of which brought about a solution of the other difficulty in which we were placed. I was sent to interview Nadar on the Place Saint Pierre at Montmartre, above which his captive balloon the "Neptune" was oscillating in the September breeze.
Since the funds were not forthcoming, Nadar took to ballooning as the means of raising money; apparently he found this substitute for real flight sufficiently interesting to divert him from the study of the helicopter principle, for the experiment went no further.
Monsieur Nadar sets out with a statement which he deems self-evident, namely, that, "in order to contend against the air, we must be specifically heavier than the air" a truth which was also, we are told, announced by the first Napoleon in the epigrammatic sentence, "There can be no progress without resistance."
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