NP: Recluse Abandon / ATD connection-lite (bulb) - reclus

[Michael Bailey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclus
Élisée Reclus (March 15, 1830 – July 4, 1905),
also known as Jean Jacques Élisée Reclus,
was a French geographer and anarchist....
During the 1870 siege of Paris, Reclus shared in the aerostatic
operations conducted by Félix Nadar,

(about which - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Paris
A pigeon post was employed during the course of the siege,
pigeons were regularly taken out of Paris by balloon. )

and about Nadar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Félix_Nadar
Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon
(April 6, 1820 – March 21, 1910), a French photographer,
caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist.

...The Society for the Encouragement of Aerial Locomotion
by Means of Heavier than Air Machines" was established,
with Nadar as president and Jules Verne as secretary....
In April 1874, he lent his photo studio to a group of painters,
thus making the first exhibition of the Impressionists possible.
He photographed Victor Hugo on his death-bed in 1885.
He is credited with having published (in 1886) the first
photo-interview (of famous chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul,
then a centenarian), and also took erotic photographs.

...a-and, both Verne and Nadar appeared in the film version
of the Edwardian opera, "The Burgher King"
along with...(wait for it)... Kevin Bacon!