在拍摄这张照片的几年前,纳达尔写了一本关于他所崇拜的好斗的人的简略传记:"法国头号评论家……他同时是一位诗人、一位有风格的人和一位有爱心的人……我读过M.Pelletan的评论文章……这些文章就像《沙》中的一段话一样打动我,就像巴尔扎克的一部小说一样让我感兴趣。"
A few years before he took this photograph, Nadar wrote a thumbnail biography of the combative man it lionizes: "The number one French critic . . . who is at the same time a poet, a man of style, and a man with heart. . . . I have read critical articles by M. Pelletan . . . that moved me as much as a passage from Sand and interested me as much as a novel by Balzac."