Charles Philipon

Charles Philipon ( born April 19, 1800, Lyon, † January 25, 1861 in Paris) was a French cartoonist, graphic artist and journalist. He also served as editor of the satirical magazine La Caricature and Le Charivari.

From 1824 he worked as a lithographer and caricaturist in Paris. In 1829 he founded with his brother Gabriel Aubert a small distribution for printmaking. Philipon also participated in the review La Silhouette. This was published December 24, 1829 to January 2, 1831, positioned itself as a moderate liberal, lavishly illustrated book on Civil readers. They became the model of many similar publications. An overlooked by the censors unsigned caricature Philipon of King Charles X in the issue of April 1, 1830 led to a scandal and condemning the responsible editor. As a result, the magazine hid political content like behind seemingly innocuous representations about animal scenes by JJ Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard ).

With increasing business success Philipon sacrificed his own artistic activities of the career as an entrepreneur. He headed the satirical magazine La Caricature and Le Charivari and founded Le Journal amusing. Philipon magazines employed outstanding artists such as Grandville, Honoré Daumier, Paul Gavarni, Travies and Benjamin Roubaud.

After 1835, Philipon magazines turned increasingly from the political satire towards the social. Characteristic types of French society were presented in an entertaining way and exposed. So Daumier created at the suggestion Philipon the type of " commercial agent Robert Macaire ".

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Philipon 1848 Journal pour rire founded.

Robert Macaire d' affaires agent