Figure 1.--This 1908 issue of "L'Epatant" is clearly making fun of the Germans, but I am not sure just what the joke is. Perhaps that they are so militaristic that they are drafting everyone into the army, even the aged, blind, and cripled.
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Figure 1.--This 1908 issue of "L'Epatant" is clearly making fun of the Germans, but I am not sure just what the joke is. Perhaps that they are so militaristic that they are drafting everyone into the army, even the aged, blind, and cripled. |
We are unsure if the French had 19th periodical children's magazines as were so popular in England. French readers have mentioned some titles, but we do not yet know very much about them. One old French magazine were: L'Epatant with the "Pieds Nickeles" (Author Forton) and "Bibi Fricotin". Another old French magazine for girls was Lisette. French readers tell us that France had several periodical children's magazines
in the post World War II era. A complicating factor here is that several magazines that were very popular in France were actually published in Belgium, but this may have been the cartoon magazines more than the traditioanl magazines. The most popular magazine for younger children was Roudoudou which came out one or twice monthly. There were also several popular magazines for teenagers. Coeur Vaillant (Valliant Heart) was a popular boys' magazine. It came out each Thursday and had a Catholic view. Vaillant and Tintin was another popular weekly boys magazine. Lisette was a popular girls' magazine. These cheaply printed magazines dealt with a variety of different topics of interest to children. A French reader writes, "Personnaly, being a good Catholic boy, I loved Coeur Vaillant and also, as a younger boy, Roudoudou ". One the oldest French magazine was "La semaine de Suzette". It was mainly for girls. it dates from 1905. The main heroes was "Becassine". We note quite a number of children's magazines that were comics, but the traditional magazines with stories might also have cartoons as well.
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