14 undivided back postcards featuring cartoons against Emil Zola by illustrator Lebourgeois [signed in plate]. A rare series that went out at the a Zola trial for libel was found guilty, sentenced to a year in prison and fined, removed from the Legion of Honor and fled to England.
Zola's own books are used in Cartoons postcard and also in testimonials from Dreyfus trial. In one, Zola is seen running away from France with a local soldier chasing him, in another he is shown inside a prison cell with mice near his feet, a cartoon featuring Zola hitting a clown on a drum that reads: "J'Accuse" ["I blame" - Zola's famous article was published in January 1898], And more.
The Zola's Cartoons Series by illustrator Lebourgeois Was published in the book "Zola in 32 cartoons", in Paris 1898 [see Dynasty auction # 3 item 21], and soon the cartoons appeared in the postcards of the period.
14 undivided postcards, not mailed. Very good condition.
