L'Éclipse was a French

France

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 newspaper

Newspaper

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 of the nineteenth century, appearing from 1868 to 1876. Edited by Francis Polo, L'Éclipse was a showcase for the illustrator André Gill

André Gill

André Gill was a French caricaturist. Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guînes at Paris, the son of the Comte de Guînes and Sylvie-Adeline Gosset, he studied at this city's Academy of Fine Arts. He adopted the pseudonym André Gill in homage to his hero, James Gillray. Gill began illustrating for...

, in which he drew caricature

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s of his illustrious contemporaries.

Napoleon III

Napoleon III of France

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 disliked the portrait of him drawn by Gill in La Lune

La Lune

La Lune was the name of a nineteenth-century French weekly four-sheet newspaper edited by Francis Polo. The illustrator André Gill became known for his work for this journal, in which he drew caricatures for a series entitled The Man of the Day.Napoleon III disliked the portrait of him drawn by...

. In December 1867, the journal was censored

Censorship

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. "La Lune will have to undergo an eclipse

Eclipse

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," an authority commented to Editor Francis Polo when the ban was instituted, unwittingly dubbing Polo's subsequent publication: L'Eclipse, which made its first appearance on August 9, 1868.http://freresgoncourt.free.fr/portefeuilleplus/Gill/gill.htm

L'Éclipse would itself suffer from twenty-two seizures by the law. It consisted only of one page, due to governmental restrictions.

External links

• L' Eclipse: journal hebdomadaire politique, satirique et illustré digitized version