The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . Germany : Farewell, Madame, and if France : Ha ! We shall meet again ! individual men rather than in the caricature of events orgroups. His real name was Louis Alexandre Gosset. Hewas born at Landouzy-li-Ville, October 19, 1840, and died inParis, December 29, 1885. Thiers, Gambetta, Louis Blanc,all the men of the time, were hit off by his pencil. Hismethod in most cases consisted of the grotesque exaggerationof the subjects head at the expense of the body. He was 224 CENTURY IN CARICATURE llUrtbaudmu Jos r s jDcmr ^y^&r
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . Germany : Farewell, Madame, and if France : Ha ! We shall meet again ! individual men rather than in the caricature of events orgroups. His real name was Louis Alexandre Gosset. Hewas born at Landouzy-li-Ville, October 19, 1840, and died inParis, December 29, 1885. Thiers, Gambetta, Louis Blanc,all the men of the time, were hit off by his pencil. Hismethod in most cases consisted of the grotesque exaggerationof the subjects head at the expense of the body. He was 224 CENTURY IN CARICATURE llUrtbaudmu Jos r s jDcmr ^y^&r/ CUi lAutfm .,. BISMARKOFF1 BISMARCK THE FIRST. especially happy in his caricature of Thiers, whose diminutivesize, as well as his great importance, made him a favoritesubject for the cartoonist. Thiers as Hamlet soliloquizing, To be or not to be ; Thiers as The Man Who Laughs ;the head of Thiers peering over the rim of a glass, Atempest in a glass of water ; Thiers as the first conscript ofFrance; Thiers as Achilles in retreat—all these and count-less others are from the pencil of Gill. A striking satirical sketch by Hadol, entitled La Parade,sums up all the buffooneries of the Second Empire. In it ICI ON fcEPASSEA LA niHVTZ.
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