Maxime du Camp (1822-1894): The writer was one of the founders of the Revue de Paris in 1851. He traveled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as having, in the company of Gustave Flaubert, accomplished a long journey through Greece, Egypt and Anatolia in his role as chargé de mission for an archaeological project for the Ministry of Public Instruction (Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie, 1852). For those journeys, he studied photography with Gustave Le Gray. Thus, in the thumbnail autobiography he sent Nadar for the Pantheon, he drew a parallel between his own work and the photographer’s: “The mind is a daguerreotype lens: it reproduces journeys through thought as a photographic instrument reproduces them materially.” The following year, Du Camp defended Modernist poetry with his Les Chants modernes (Modern Songs).