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Les Mysteres de Londres. Novel by Paul Feval (11 vols.; 1844).
Les Mysteres de Paris. Enormously popular novel by Eugene Sue (1842-1843).
The Mysteries rifUdolpho. Novel by Ann Radcliffe (1794).
Nadar. Pseudonym of Felix To urnachon (1820-1910), French photogTapher, journalist,
and caricaturist. Friend of Baudelaire, whom he photographed.
Nanteuil, Celestin (1813-1873). Romantic painter and graphic artist celebrated by
Nadar.
Napoleon III. Full name Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, known as Louis Napoleon
(1808-1873). Nephew of Napoleon I, he lived in exile until asswning leadership of the
Bonaparte family on the deadl of Napoleon II (1832). Elected to the National Assem­
bly in 1848 and later to the presidency of ilie Republic (December 10, 1848). Made
himself dictator by a coup d'etat (December 2, 1851), and a year later proclaimed
himself emperor as Napleon III. Having precipitated France's involvement in the
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), he was himself captured at the Batde of Sedan
(September 2, 1870) and held prisoner until d,e end of the war. Deposed by the
National Assembly on March 1, 1871, he reciTed to England, where he died.
Nargeot, Clara (nee 'nlenOllj 1829-?). French painter. Did a portrait of Baudelaire.
Nash,Joseph (1809-1878). English watercolor painter and lithographer.
LeNational. Daily newspaper published in Paris 1830-1851. During the 1840s, it was
the organ of moderate republicans.
national workshops (ateliers nat£onaux). An emergency relief agency, set up during the
Febntary Revolution of 1848, that attracted thousands of unemployed workers from all
over France; it eventually satisfied neither radicals nor moderates and was abolished by
the newly elected conservative mority in May, without any progranl of public works
to replace it.
Naville, Pierre (1904-1993). Surrealist co-editor of the first numbers of La Revolution
sunialisle, and writer on urban sociology.
Nazarenes. Group of young German painters active 1809-1830. Intent on restoring a
religious spirit to art, they established themselves in Rome under the leadership of
Johann Overbeck, Philipp Ve it, and Franz PfoIT.
Nerval, Gerard de. Pseudonym of Gerard Labrume (1808-1855), celebrated French
writer and eccentric, who committed suicide. Tr anslated Goethe's Fa ust. Author of
Voyage en orient (1848-1850), Les Illumines (1852), Les Filles de jeu (1854), Aurilia
(1855).
Nesselrode, Karl (1780-1862). Russian statesman; chancellor 1845-1856. Concluded
ilie Treaty of Paris after the Crimean War (1854-1856).
Nettelbeck, Joachim (1738-1824.). Prussian officer whose memoirs, E£ne LebensbeschreibuJ1g,
appeared in 1821.
Neufchateau, Fram;ois. Pseudonym of Nicolas Frans:ois (1750-1828), French statesman
and author. Minister of dle interior 1797; member of the Directory 1797-1798; presi­
dent of ilie Senate 1804-1806.
Niboyet, Eugenic (1804-?). Feminist who founded women's organizations in Lyons and
Paris. Editor of the periodical La Voix desfimme.r.
Nicolaitans. Heretical sect in the early Christian church at Ephesus and Pergamum,
possibly associated with the prophetess Jezebel, and condemned in Revelation (2.6)5)
for iITllllorality.
Niepce,Joseph (1765-1833). French physicist. In 1824 produced "heliotypes" by means
of glass plates coated with bitumin. Associated with Dagucrre (from 1829) in expcri­
ments leading to the invention of photogTaphy,