L'Éclipse

*L'Eclipse* 14 June 1868.
*Charles Dickens* by André Gill
Dickens crosses the English Channel, carrying his books from London to Paris.

L'Éclipse was a French magazine of the nineteenth century, appearing from 1868 to 1876. Edited by Francis Polo, L'Éclipse was a showcase for the illustrator André Gill, in which he drew caricatures of his illustrious contemporaries.^[1]

Napoleon III disliked the portrait of him drawn by Gill in La Lune. In December 1867, the journal was censored. "La Lune will have to undergo an eclipse," an authority commented to Editor Francis Polo when the ban was instituted, unwittingly dubbing Polo's subsequent publication: L'Eclipse, which made its first appearance on 9 August 1868.

L'Éclipse would itself suffer from twenty-two seizures by the law. It consisted only of one page, due to governmental restrictions.^[2]

Caricature of Théophile Gautie, 5 April 1868
Sainte-Beuve, 1868
Caricature of Gustave Doré, 1868
Caricature of Auber, 1868
Caricature of Adolphe Granier, 1868
Caricature of Émile Ollivier, 1868
« Champfleury » 1868
Caricature of Christina Nilsson as Ophelia, 5 April 1868
Caricature of Adolphe Crémieux, 1869
Caricature of Richard Wagner, 18 April 1869
Jean-Baptiste Troppmann, 23 January 1870
Caricature of Hippolyte de Lorgeril, 1874
Madame Anastasie d’André Gill. 1874

References

^ Robert Justin Goldstein (January 1989). Censorship of Political Caricature in Nineteenth-century France. Kent State University Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-87338-396-7. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
^ Robert Justin Goldstein (1 January 2000). The War for the Public Mind: Political Censorship in Nineteenth-century Europe. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-275-96461-0. Retrieved 12 June 2015.