Polydore Millaud, banker and newspaper founder, facilitated Nadar's career as a journalist. In 1838, he hired him at the Négociateur , where he worked for several years, then at L’Audience, run by Léo Lespès, later known as Timothée Trimm, in the Petit Journal, which Millaud founded in 1863. Along with the Pereire brothers, Nadar learned a lot from his association with the clever financier and press baron Millaud. The older man gave their start as journalists to a great many young men from Nadar's generation, from Henry Murger to Charles Monselet. Millaud was also the one who purchased 400 portraits from Nadar's Pantheon for the sum of 8,000 francs, thus offering Nadar the means to see his project to completion.