La Crise Boulangiste

Gustave Doré (1832–83) and others had created a taste for visual humour which continued to grow with the rise of mass-circulation newspapers. The satirical and political cartoon played a role in the Revolution of 1848, the débâcle of 1870, the Boulangiste crisis, the Dreyfus Affair and the scandals of the Third Republic. But cartoonists also laughed at human foibles, the oddness of life, women, bourgeois pretension and social manners generally. The popularity of André Gill (1840–85), Cham, Abel Faivre