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 satires of everyday life. The name refers to the folk practice of holding a charivari, a loud, riotous parade, to shame or punish wrongdoers.

History and profile

Le Charivari was started by caricaturist Charles Philipon and his brother-in-law Gabriel Aubert to reduce their financial risk of censorship fines. They also published the satirical, anti-monarchist, illustrated newspaper La Caricature, which had more pages and was printed on more expensive paper. In Le Charivari, they featured humorous content which was not so political. Ownership of the paper changed often due to issues with government censorship, as well as related taxes and fines.

Le Charivari was published daily from 1832 to 1936, and then weekly until 1937.

In 1841, British wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells and Henry Mayhew used Le Charivari as the model to establish their Punch magazine, subtitled The London Charivari.

thumb|Atelier de la Caricature et du Charivari by [[Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers depicts the studio of La Caricature and Charivari after the two publications merged. The harlequin is drawing a caricature of King Louis Philippe, whose back is turned to the onlooker.]]

Selected contributing artists

Contributing with lithographs, woodcuts, and (after 1870) with zincographies (gillotage) were:

  • Cham (Amédée de Noé)
  • Honoré Daumier
  • Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
  • Achille Devéria
  • Gustave Doré
  • Eugène Forest
  • Paul Gavarni
  • André Gill
  • Alfred Grévin
  • Grandville (Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard)
  • Paul Hadol
  • Alfred Le Petit
  • Maurice Loutreuil
  • Henry Monnier
  • Louis Touchagues
  • Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known as Nadar
  • Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers, known as Traviès

Selected contributing writers

  • Louis Desnoyers
  • Louis Leroy
  • Henri Rochefort
  • Agénor Altaroche
  • Philibert Audebrand
  • Charles Bataille
  • Clément Caraguel
  • Albert Cler
  • Taxile Delord
  • Louis Adrien Huart
  • Jaime
  • Henry Maret

Illustrations in Le Charivari

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Image:Les représentans représentés, Victor Hugo, 3017.jpg|Lithograph of Victor Hugo by Honoré Daumier published 20 July 1849

Image:Louis Pierre Gabriel Bernard Morel-Retz - Canal de Suez - route des Grandes Indes.jpg|Lithograph by Louis Morel-Retz, published<br>22 November 1869

Image:Les Poires (1834).jpg|Caricature of Louis Philippe, published<br>17 January 1834

Image:1864 0227 discussion 280.jpg|Lithograph by Honoré Daumier published<br>27 February 1864

Image:1864 trains 200.jpg|Lithograph by Honoré Daumier published 1864

Cham_-_Charivari_-_V6d331-c.png|Satirical cartoon by Cham captioned "Madame Saqui was responsible for putting the surveyors in touch with each other during the triangulation operation". Charivari - Vol 6

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References

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  • Daumier Drawings, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Le Charivari (see index)