Le Charivari

Le Charivari was an illustrated newspaper published in Paris, France from 1832 to 1937.

To reduce their financial risk of censorship fines with the satirical anti-monarchist illustrated newspaper La Caricature, which had more pages and printed on more expensive paper, caricaturist Charles Philipon and Gabriel Aubert started Le Charivari which contained humorous, but not as political, content.

Le Charivari, the first publication to print lithographs, published caricatures, political cartoons and reviews. In 1835 the government banned political caricature, thus Le Charivari began publishing satires of everyday life.

The ownership of the paper changed often due to censorship, and related taxes and fines.

Le Charivari published daily from 1832 to 1926, and then weekly until 1937.

Contributing artists

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

• Honoré Daumier
• Paul Gavarni
• Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard)
• Henri Monnier
• C. J. Traviès
• Devéira
• Decamps
• Cham (Amédée de Noé)
• Gustave Doré

Text came from, among others,

• L. Desnoyers
• Cler
• Jaime
• Huart
• Rochefort

Reference

"Le Charivari." h. Damier and His Lithographic Work. Accessed on May 7, 2005.

External links

About Le Charivari in a Honere Daumier biography