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Title: The history of the nineteenth century in caricature
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Maurice, Arthur Bartlett, 1873-1946 Cooper, Frederic Taber, 1864-1937, joint author
Subjects: History, Modern Nineteenth century Caricature
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the words Au Marechal Bazaine—La France Reconnais-sante have another and a deeper significance. The de-fender of the city of Paris, General Trochu, was geniallycaricatured by Andre Gill in LEclipse as a blanchissenseindustriously ironing out the dirty linen of France. How-ever great his popularity was at the time, Trochu has by nomeans escaped subsequent criticism. To him the resistanceof Paris seemed nothing but an heroic folly, and he had
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ENTREESOLENNELLE DE LEMPEREUR DALLEMAGNEA PARIS; Caricature de Fdlix Rggamey.) CENTURY IN CARICATURE 229 no hesitation about proclaiming his opinion. Another ex-ceedingly happy caricature by Andre Gill was that represent-ing Henri Rochefort, the implacable enemy of LouisNapoleon, as a member of the Government of the NationalDefense. Here Rocheforts head is shown peering out ofthe mouth of a cannon projecting through a hole in the citysfortifications. PART IV THE END OF THE CENTURYCHAPTER XXIII THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN CARICATURE DURING the period covered by the present chap-ter the foundation of the two leading Americancomic weeklies, Puck and Judge, the former in1877 and the latter in 1881, led to a distinct advance inpolitical caricature in this country. It also made it possiblefor the first time to draw an intelligent comparison betweenthe tendencies of caricature in England and in America.No one can look over the early files of Puck and Judge andcompare them with Punch for the co

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