Bécassine
Bécassine is a French comic book character that first appeared in the first issue of the girls magazine " La Semaine de Suzette " on 2 February 1905. She embodied the typical maid of Brittany, which went to the great city of Paris, because the demand was so great. She was depicted as naive, but found the rule. Her numerous linguistic blunders were a source of amusement of the bourgeois reader. She was very talkative, but not in relation to the family secrets of her reign.
Development and publication history
Originally planned to fill a blank page of the magazine, the story was written by Jacqueline Rivière (actually Jeanne Josephine Spallarossa, 1851-1920 ), wife of JH Bernard de la Roche, the editor of the journal, and drawn by Joseph Pinchon (1871 -1953 ). This first page was so successful that the stories Bécassine now published regularly.
From 1913 to 1950 27 albums have been released by the adventures of Bécassine, all of which were drawn by Pinchon were written ( with the exception of two, who came from the pen of Edouard Zier ) and Maurice Languereau to 1941 (the year when he died ). 1948-1950 were other artists.
The French Post, published in April 2005, a postage stamp with the image of Bécassine - the centenary of the publication of her first adventure. Several Breton associations protested because they saw a reduction in their region in this figure.