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Eight issues of the French ‘Le Pèlerin’ with cartoons against Hitler and the German Reich

Opening price: $200

Commission: 23%

Sold: $240
04.08.2024 07:00pm

Eight issues of the French ‘Le Pèlerin’. Each issue contains comics and caricatures mocking Hitler and the German Reich, as well as a large full page anti-Nazi caricature on the last page.

Appear:

Issue dated September 15, 1935.
Issue dated May 17, 1936.
Issue dated March 20, 1938.
Issue dated September 25, 1938.
Issue dated October 2, 1938.
Issue dated September 10, 1939.
Issue dated February 4, 1940.
Issue dated May 12, 1940.

Le Pèlerin was a French weekly magazine that started off on July 12, 1873. Considered France’s first color magazine. The weekly was founded by a group of journalists from Bayard Presse, who formed the initial core. In its first decades, the magazine took an antisemitic line with caricatures blaming Jews for French society’s ills. During the German Reich era, the magazine adopted an anti-Nazi stance on one hand by portraying the Nazis as France’s enemies on the eve of war, while also being anti-Semitic [French Jews were seen as potentially provoke the front against the Nazi enemy, hence the opposition to them].

All issues are complete. Varying conditions. The issue dated September 15, 1935 has a stain on the left margins throughout the pages and a loss from the bottom right corner throughout its length without damage to text. The remaining issues are in good to very good condition.

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103. Eight issues of the French 'Le Pèlerin' with cartoons against Hitler and the German Reich