''La Lune'' ("The Moon") was the name of a nineteenth-century French weekly four-sheet

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edited by Francis Polo. The illustrator

André Gill André Gill (17 October 1840 – 1 May 1885) was a French caricaturist. Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guînes at Paris, the son of the Comte de Guînes and Sylvie-Adeline Gosset, Gill studied at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. H ...

became known for his work for this journal, in which he drew caricatures for a series entitled ''The Man of the Day''. Napoléon III disliked the portrait of him drawn by Gill. In December 1867, the journal was

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. "''La Lune'' will have to undergo an eclipse," an authority commented to the editor Polo when the ban was instituted, unwittingly dubbing Polo's subsequent publication: '' L'Éclipse'', which made its first appearance on 9 August 1868.Free
Gill would contribute caricatures to this successor of ''La Lune'' as well. File:André Gill (autoportrait).jpg, Self-Caricature of André Gill, Cover of ''La Lune'' 15 September 1867 File:LaLune1867.jpg, Cover of ''La Lune'', illustrated by

, 1867. File:Gill Ugalde.jpg, Delphine Ugalde, 26 May 1867

Sources

Covers of ''La Lune'' by André Gill

External links

''La Lune''
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