Jules Janin
Nadar French
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Jules Janin (1804–1874) was a theater critic who amused himself and his regular Monday readers with his vagabond imagination, capricious humor, and remarkably mobile opinions. Unsure, impressionable, and unfaithful in his passions, this patronizing man made enemies as easily as Nadar made friends. Still, his bubbly informal observations sometimes captured the ephemeral essence of the metropolis. Nadar's opinion of the critic is plain. The wellpadded, proud, expansive little man rises in the picture space like a hot-air balloon-a dreamy inflated self with a hollow interior.
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