New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-27
FRENCH FUNNY PAPERS.
WHAT THEY ARE AND WHO MAKE THEM.

IRON OCCASIONAL coRREsPoSDENToF THE TRiBuSHl
PARIS, May 10.
The Charirari celebrated its jubilee the other day
by grand 9te at the house of Dr. yeron It's Editor
DR.. Veron loves society and at his periodical recop
lions he passes all the celebrities OF Time in review
on his own hearth and touches ON art, music, pol
itcs the drama and even finance. He reads little
but he talks and listens good deal men are MS
library of reference. 1t Is the French way. Ohe
reason why so many Partisan papers are brought
out liz the afternoon is that good writer's will not
work at night for early morning publication. Ihey
want their evenings for the monde With all this'
veron makes only poor use OF his opportunities
The Ckarirari, which was once such leader In the
funny world that Punch went to it for subtitle,
is now liks piece Of pleasantly Oh the '"e VI
the Pharaohs 1t might be printed on papyras. IL
has shaken down into institution; and the "oriu
knows what that means for good and for evil I'D
France 1t goes on; 1T belongs to the eternai
framework of things it is beyond and aooVe
change like the Lyons Railway and the system Oh
the octroi Yet all over France and all over inc
French world beyond the frontiers, people go on
| taking the Charrari, because they nave ai"hyS
taken it. There is regular supply TO places nAo
Newt aledunia and Cochin China for subscribers
who are content to wait three mouths for theH
laugh.
The paper was vital force in the time 0f LOUIS
| Philippe; it jeered him of the throne. and IL was
founded to do that. Phlippon had one journal sup
pressed and he started this one to take Its place.
There was much debate over the choice Of title.
but at length the Charirari was hit upon with us
significance of a Hurly-burly as best suited to the
times 1t was the Journal of liberal and reforming
France, against the bourgeois King. with his no
ton of limited suffrage, and Liberty in leading
| strings The liberalism Of that day wasa consum-
| ING fire. Tho Charirar was started with revolu-
tionary haste in a night aud morning. PmDp2oh
| organized it as Carnot organized victory. lie sent
out 200 900 copies Wbi ct 0rbt-a labor OF Hercules
ut that tme-and then called his staff in to dinner
Granville che caricaturist was Mt the table, and all
| through the meal he kept his eye fixed on an enor-
nous pear in a centre-pirce of fruit and flowers
1t seemed to fascinate him. When the cloth was
drawn no took the pear, put few touches on IL
| with a piece of charcoal, and 10! a head OF HIS
| Majesty Louis Philippe the regning king. After
i that his Majesty was drawn as pear throughout
bis dominious: 1t gave the note of caricature
| There was a touch of slyness In it dear to the
| French /; 1t was malia-what more harmless than
| picture of pearl At length the Government lost
| patience aud draughrsman was brought before
the Judges For sole defence no called for paper
| and pencil and drew the Kings head again ls IL
nv fault, gentlemen. If his Majesty Is like piece
| of fruitp fIe was acquitted. of course.
| The earlier Charirari was almost great. Dau-
mier. Gavarni and cham were among its contrib
utors Daumer was thinker, Gavarni an artist
to his finger tips; Guam ovcriowed with facile fun.
Daumiers contribution had often the character OF
| a large sustained work his Robert Macaire" was
AN elaborate satire on the vices and pretensons OF
tho time in politics and social life avoyage to Liii-
| put of the Monarchy Of July. Gavarni worked
more after the fancy of the moment; and Cham Ill
both WAYS CHAINS Comic History OF tho Ma
tional Assembly" has all the Importance II not all
the dignity of history: nowadaysit helps one u
| understand the coup dftdt. 1t is the Assembly OF
Is4s with all tho wild men, the idealogists that
| Napoleon hated so much, Mt the height OF thor
| wildness Lamartine is soaring; LDus Blanc
spouting; Lamennais, Hugo, Leroux Jules favrc,
all are there in their several picturesque varieties OF
unreason. France Is not to be governed 10 THIS
way II is clear; and the man with a sw ord is In
| evitable, at least for space. In his later Time
Cham seemed to have lost the verve for this KIND
OF work; h, went into small social studies, thumb
nail illustration of the humors of the sale o. man
| ger and Of the concierge's lodge.
The new type of comic journal is a change for the
worse. The Charirari was Objectionable by acct
dent the others are never unobiectouable even oy
chance. There ia a consolation in the thought
that # they change it must be for the better. De
crncv NAV become the fashion. Palais Roya
| audience the other night mads wry lace over
| nasty mess Of dramatic intrigue; and 1t was con-
| sdered most serious sign. The Vie Pdrls,en"e Is
| the organ of what may be called elegant vice II
lnhsrits the tradition of tabled Augustan age OF
| national impurty. The French have an artistic
| pride in their uncleahness; they glory In having
| hundred synonyms for the word spade hlsu
society is alone supposed to know how 10 be iew'
with taste and the yie ParisieRne helps to show It
| intar 81 I'm paC number
c!every the contributors cross the abyss OF corrup
| ton on the hair line of Wit.
The Petit journal pour Rire does for another clas
what che Tie Pdrisenne does for persons oil quality
It ri YES the humOr of certain trade, and to judg
Inv these it must be dull trade after all. Some
thing of this effect. howevet. may he due to Gre
WINS DISGUST for his work. lie draws IN the PEI
| Journal Dour Hre. and with n really exquisite fee
mg for the value OF touch. lie Is conventional, Tx
| most Frenchmen, but like them, too, his eonVer
tiop ia ant 10 ps a good one There is no gener
osity. truth or romantic honor IN this section u
= Rob.m,a "A he sees it. lie makes wlckedness jus
| "A sorlld and commonplace ms his contreres max
r.suectabilty-it is something gained. In th
LovruaI 4musaut he strikes tho Same note and cor
senuenty In spite of ITS title, 1t Is gloomy page
a INT all these journals more or less journal
c Of cood company-of tho Faubourg or of the bou'
geoise; more recent enterprise has brought nit
; | even within the reach of the poor man. III Is I'd
doctrine OF equality applied to literary pleasure
Their. are two or three kinds of rude c0lored lith'
graphs on sale now that leave nothing to be desire
e | Int n shower and thunderb0ts to Kill OIL half III
l. | ,m,c sditors IN the land. These deal chiefly VII
SCENES of popular llo-the barraok-room, TN
g kitchen, the small grocers shop; and they gave III
II | humJrs OF that miiten with the exaggeratlo
IA nroppr of course this form OF art fou sec thei
b HnnSinS mp everywhere they have taken th
,, place OF the old religious Autograph for the ehea
II | tinuo NJ
f. | surslv marks that darkest hour that comes Jus
II | before the dawn.
: The question naturally arises, IL there nothin
in decent family life for comic observation 20 Nv
y upon Punch has answered 1t IN England, anu
h rae tbonSht that TribOulet, formed avowedy o
!, | M"' punnb was poinV to answer