Le Charivari

Le Charivari ( " noisy event", and the title is sometimes translated as " The spectacle ") was a satirical magazine that was published from 1832 to 1937 in Paris.

The Journal

Two years after the cartoonist Charles Philipon had the magazine La Caricature released, appeared in December 1832 for the first time Le Charivari. While La Caricature was printed on higher quality paper, had a larger sheet size and was geared more towards anti- monarchist, the new journal was higher circulation and unpolitischeren Topics reduce the financial risk of the publisher by would be less censored. In Le Charivari published a total of four pages reviews, caricatures of famous people and less controversial political cartoons than in the rival newspaper. After the ban on political cartoons in 1835 satires of everyday life were published propagated. Nevertheless changed because of censorship and the associated fines the owners several times. 1864, Louis Adrien Huart the publication. The magazine was published daily until 1926 and was then continued until 1937 as a weekly magazine.

Already on December 15, 1832 Le Charivari published a drawing by Honoré Daumier. In more than forty years followed nearly 3,900 lithographs and hundreds of wood engravings of this artist.

The now famous article in the magazine wrote the art critic Louis Leroy for the issue of 25 April 1874: His report on the first exhibition of the artists' association Société anonyme des artistes coopérative peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs in the premises of the photographer Nadar he titled with L' exposure the Impressionnistes derived from Claude Monet's there gezeigtem image Impression - Soleil levant. Leroy succeeded with this article, the reviled, the artists and their style of painting, the neologism Impressionism.

Employees artist

By lithographs, woodcuts and ( after 1870 ) with Gillotagen were represented:

  • Honoré Daumier
  • Alexandre- Gabriel Decamps
  • Achille Devéria
  • Gustave Doré
  • Paul Gavarni
  • Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard )
  • Cham ( Amédée de Noé )
  • Stop ( Louis Morel -Retz )
  • Draner ( Jules Jean Georges Renard )

Texts published for example by:

  • Albert Cler
  • Louis Desnoyers
  • Louis Adrien Huart
  • Jaime
  • Henri Rochefort
  • Albert Wolff pseudonym under Charles Brissac

Magazines of the same name

From 1838 to 1841 Belgian edition was published under the name Charivarie Belge, which was published and printed in Brussels. In the 1850s, then followed Le Charivari - Édition Belge. Besides Honoré Daumier and others contributed in Belgium also Félicien Rops drawings for illustration.

In London in 1841 appeared the first time the magazine Punch, which on the French model subtitled The London Charivari resulted in allusion.

In addition, there were still a Charivari de Lyon and a German edition, which could, however, gain no real meaning.

From 1957 to 1967 there was a new trial under the name Charivari to establish a satirical magazine in France.

Impression, Sunrise Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay Albert Wolff (Journalist) Punch (magazine)
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