New-York tribune., 1902-05-11
GA E1RNi.
HE Is AT LAST TO HAVE A MONU-
MENT.
AII>N1'.

MEM.
Gavarni. the famous French caricaturist Of
fifty years ago. is at last To be honored bv n
statue in Paris in the Place Sante Georges A
fund for the purpose is in process of accumuIa-
ton' the latest contribution being one of 81 600
derived from fGte at the Moulin Rouge
GaVarnls real name. The Pan Mall Gazette"
reminds us. was CheYaliicr. His father was in a
revolutionary prison about the same time as
raul de Rocks father. but. unlike De Rocks
rather managed TO keep his head on his shoul-
oers' lie was put to learn the business first of
an archilect, and then of maker of mathemat-
zeal instruments. He also went in for land sur
Veying and being at Tarbes whence the great
raymond had climbed Mont Perdu made the
ascent Of that difficult pinnacle of the Pyreneos
but ne mad to become carcaturist because II
was IN nm. He became, in fact the greatest
1' i"' oi MS ulhe. one may describe him
" SUI oI frehch Cruikshank, lacking in re-
spectabliity-a quality which French caricatur
lists are somewhat apt to lack Perbans bo
seems 10 be less respectable than he really vos
because he had for biographers the terrible
brothers De Goncourt Art criticis,, u,as no.
the strong point of that appalling coupIe What
really interests them is the futter of the patti-
coat These stories undoubtedly did make
"aVarh ridiculous; and a strange thing about
them is that the materials were suppIied NV
GaVarni's own son.
Inc caflcaturlsts capacity for falling in debt
was boundless. He incurred a large debt in
starting his journal des Gems du Monde"-a
newspaper which had such contributors as
SaInte-BeuVe, Victor Hugo and Gautier-and
stopped it at the twenty-ninth number with tba
dept sun hanging over him The Gazette" notes
that he opposed the abolition OF Imprisonment
iol ueO' ana that his attitude was quite logical
me existence OF the penalty enabled him to
OBTAIN credit and he attached great Importance
TO that privilege. 1t was to evade his creditors
that GaVarnl came to England in 1917 He camo
with the very best ntroductions, but socially no
was not success. He wanted to be too intimate
with people all at once and he was roo fond of
appearing IN public with some impossible and
unaccountable woman hanging on his arm
Ihackefay began to take him up. but quickly
dropped him. and Dickens did the same More
over he made one faux pas which the English
people never forSave. lie was invited to Wind
sor to draw the portrait of Queen Victoria and
after the appointment had been duly fixed he
changed his mind at the last moment and stayed
away without even Offering an excuse British
Indignation at this was so bitter that when. on
his return to France he was decorated The
Times lifted up its voice in protest.
A fact not generally known about Gavarni
Is that he was one OF the founders OF the famous
Diner Magny. He suggested the idea to Sainte-
Beuve. and the first dinner. at which there were
Olly press III 'idNarnl Salnte-BeuYe. De Chen
nevieres, DR. Noyne and the De Goncourts tool,
place on November -, 1862 Afterward as all
the world knows the company was recruited by
such distinguished men of letters as Flaubert
TuIgenien, Daudet and Zoa, but Gavarni
soon ceased to attend it, driven away say his
biographers. by the din of conversation His
health began to fail shortly afterward and he
died after a long and painful illness on Novem-
per "a 1866"