Paul Hadol (1835 in
Remiremont
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– 1875 in
Paris
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) was a French
illustrator
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,
draftsman
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and
caricaturist
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List of caricaturists
* Abed Abdi (born 1942)
* Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003)
* Alex Gard (1900–1948)
* Alexander Saroukhan (1898–1977)
* Alfred Grévin (1827–1892)
* Alf ...
.
Hadol collaborated with periodicals such as ''Le Gaulois'', ''
Le Journal Amusant'', ''High Life'', ''
Le Charivari
''Le Charivari'' was an illustrated magazine published in Paris, France, from 1832 to 1937. It published caricatures, political cartoons and reviews. After 1835, when the government banned political caricature, ''Le Charivari'' began publishing ...
'', ''Le Monde comique'', ''La Vie Parisienne'' and ''L'Eclipse'' (under his real name) and with Mailly and Baillard under the pseudonym White.
A former customs employee, he illustrated novels, theater posters, and
satire
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series (''Actualités'' (Actualities), ''Mon Musée des Souverains'' (My Museum of Sovereigns)), which portrayed the political rulers of his period.
During the
1870 war he published ''La Ménagerie impériale'' (The Imperial Zoo) - caricatures which placed the heads of members of the disgraced Bonaparte family and their conspirators on the bodies of animals. The series begins with the former Emperor
Napoléon III
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew ...
as a vulture, clutching in his claws the bleeding body of
France
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. He is described by the caption as cowardly and ferocious.
References
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1835 births
1875 deaths
Artists from Rouen
French illustrators
French draughtsmen
French caricaturists
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