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Folies de la Commune, Les

Folies de la Commune, Les

Folies de la Commune, Les

by CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé)

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Paris: Au Bureau du Journal L'Eclipse, [1871]. Irony and Biting Satire on the 4th French Revolution

CHAM (pseud. of Amédée de Noé). Les Folies de la Commune. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal L'Eclipse, n.d. [1871].

First edition, complete. Quarto (13 x 9 3/4 inches; 330 x 247 mm.). Hand-colored lithographed title leaf and nineteen hand-colored lithographed plates. Plates 18 & 19 slightly shorter at lower and fore-edge.

Modern green cloth, front cover with dark green morocco label lettered in gilt. A near fine copy.

Created and published in the immediate wake of high political drama in France - the Paris Commune aka the Fourth French Revolution, when the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War led to the fall of Emperor Louis Napoleon III's Second French Empire, the establishment of the Third French Republic, and near immediate popular workers' ("communards") insurrection in concert with the citizen's National Guard against the forces of Versailles which, though Republican, held direct rule over Paris. The Communards established self-rule in the city and became, in effect, the local city council from March 18, 1871 through May 28, 1871 when Versailles government forces defeated the armed Communards and local National Guard in the streets during La Semaine Sanglante, "the Bloody Week," and left sections of Paris in ruins.

L'Eclipse, publisher of this series by Cham, was a weekly newspaper founded in 1868 and edited by François Polo, a Republican who published pamphlets against the Emperor Napoleon III yet was no sympathizer of Republican socialists who were blamed for excess and the short-lived but no less deadly (with an estimated 10,000-50,000 killed) civil war. Repeatedly censored or banned L'Eclipse endured through 1876.

Of Amédée de Noé (1819-1879), "known as Cham (that is, Ham, the son of Noah)...it was said that he had ‘an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège (173), in which Daumier was his collaborator, are typical of his work" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, pp. 155-156).

1. Sont-ils bêtes! ils n'aiment pas les Ruraux, et ce sont les villes qu'ils brûlent!
2. Mais tun'as pas la croix d'honneur. -Je la mets pour protester contre son incendie.
3. Le conservateur des musés de la commune recevant l'insigne de ses atributions.
4. Va donc, Berquin!
5. Comprenant la nécessité d'aller voter.
6. Je me porte aux élections. - Voulez-vous des affiches sur les murs? - Elles masqueraient mon programme.
7. Le chatiment de Courbet. Le nommer gardien de la Colonne relevée.
8. Je faisais sortir les locataires avant. - Moi pas, c'était plus animé.
9. Voleurs! m'avoir fait faire tout ça pour dix francs! Ça leur portera pas bonheur!
10. Criez donc contre la Commune! Elle allait la résoudre, la question des loyers!
11. Tuy te présentes ainsi? - C'est le meilleur costume maintenant pour ressurer les électeurs.
12. Y a pas que le bouchon qui l'a perdu, y a la boutielle avec.
13. Saint Médard s'entetant a ne pas croire a la fin des incendies.
14. Enfin si vous aviez tout détruit, qu'est-c que la peuple aurait mangé? - Il aurait poussé de l'herbe!
15. Mes armes!!!
16. Uniforme contre l'incendie proposé pour les conseillers municipaux depuis qu'on brule les hotels de ville.
17. Mon mari m'a expliqué la Commune: suppose, qu'il m'a dit, que tu sois le gouvernement...Et là dessus vous voyez mon oeil.
18. M'sieu, vous ne pourriez pas me céder un peu de pétrole?... papa qu'etait gris a bu celui qu'on m'avait donné pour mettre le feu.
19. Des deux, qui aurait dit que ce serait moi qui prendrais Paris?

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Folies de la Commune, Les
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CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé)
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Paris: Au Bureau du Journal L'Eclipse, [1871]

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