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Le Charivari

French satirical magazine

Summary

French satirical magazine

Field	Value
title	Le Charivari
image_file	Le Charivari.jpg
image_size	200px
image_caption	Masthead of Le Charivari in 1833, during its second year of publication.
category	Humor magazine
founder	Charles Philipon
firstdate	1 December 1832
lastdate	1937
language	French
based	Paris, France

Le Charivari was an illustrated magazine published in Paris, France, from 1832 to 1937. It published caricatures, political cartoons and reviews. After 1835, when the government banned political caricature, Le Charivari began publishing satires of everyday life. The name refers to the folk practice of holding a charivari, a loud, riotous parade, to shame or punish wrongdoers.

History and profile

Le Charivari was started by caricaturist Charles Philipon and his brother-in-law Gabriel Aubert to reduce their financial risk of censorship fines. They also published the satirical, anti-monarchist, illustrated newspaper La Caricature, which had more pages and was printed on more expensive paper. In Le Charivari, they featured humorous content which was not so political. Ownership of the paper changed often due to issues with government censorship, as well as related taxes and fines.

Le Charivari was published daily from 1832 to 1936, and then weekly until 1937.

In 1841, British wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells and Henry Mayhew used Le Charivari as the model to establish their Punch magazine, subtitled The London Charivari.

King Louis Philippe]], whose back is turned to the onlooker.

Selected contributing artists

Contributing with lithographs, woodcuts, and (after 1870) with zincographies (gillotage) were:

Cham (Amédée de Noé)
Honoré Daumier
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
Achille Devéria
Gustave Doré
Eugène Forest
Paul Gavarni
André Gill
Alfred Grévin
Grandville (Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard)
Paul Hadol
Alfred Le Petit
Maurice Loutreuil
Henry Monnier
Louis Touchagues
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known as Nadar
Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers, known as Traviès

Selected contributing writers

Louis Desnoyers
Louis Leroy
Henri Rochefort
Agénor Altaroche
Philibert Audebrand
Charles Bataille
Clément Caraguel
Albert Cler
Taxile Delord
Louis Adrien Huart
Jaime
Henry Maret

Illustrations in ''Le Charivari''

Image:Les représentans représentés, Victor Hugo, 3017.jpg|Lithograph of Victor Hugo by Honoré Daumier published 20 July 1849 Image:Louis Pierre Gabriel Bernard Morel-Retz - Canal de Suez - route des Grandes Indes.jpg|Lithograph by Louis Morel-Retz, published 22 November 1869 Image:Les Poires (1834).jpg|Caricature of Louis Philippe, published 17 January 1834 Image:1864 0227 discussion 280.jpg|Lithograph by Honoré Daumier published 27 February 1864 Image:1864 trains 200.jpg|Lithograph by Honoré Daumier published 1864 Cham_-Charivari-_V6d331-c.png|Satirical cartoon by Cham captioned "Madame Saqui was responsible for putting the surveyors in touch with each other during the triangulation operation". Charivari - Vol 6

References

Thomas Gretton. (1997). "European Illustrated Weekly Magazines, c. 1850–1900". Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas.

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