''Le Cri de Paris'' was an illustrated French political magazine that was founded by Alexandre Natanson in 1897 and was at the beginning a supplement of ''

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''. ''Le Cri de Paris'' title means ''The Paris

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'' in English, but it has in French two other meanings like ''Paris Fashion'' (as in « ''le dernier cri'' », ''chic'', etc.) and ''cri'' as in ''cris de Paris'', i.e. the

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. This ambiguous title was forged by

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. The magazine covered news, political articles and satire.

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was one of its illustrators. It featured pro- Dreyfus and

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drawings by Hermann Paul and Ibels. The magazine was subject to frequent

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. ''Le Cri de Paris'' ceased publication in 1940.

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