L’Assiette au Beurre – “Die Butterwoche” Issue of the Anti-Semitic Weekly from March 8, 1902. Illustrations by Sancha (Signed in the Plate), Texts by Jehan Rictus.
One of the illustrations is titled “Monologue, ” where a downtrodden man is depicted with the caption: “Let’s go home, I haven’t sold anything tonight… I hold the opinion of Drumont (the anti-Semitic propagandist Édouard Drumont), it’s all the fault of the dirty Jews who are devouring France.” Another illustration shows a Jewish passerby under the title “Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, ” with the description: “On Judgment Day, I have an idea that I will be an angel… I’ll be in a robe with two wings, from the threshold of eternal life, finally, I will torment the dead, ” and more.
L’Assiette au Beurre was a French satirical illustrated weekly that ran from 1901 to 1936. The publication was weekly until 1912. It defined itself as being in “search of a certain visual quality that emphasizes predominantly political content.” The founder of the weekly was Samuel-Sigismond Schwarz, a Hungarian immigrant who became a naturalized French citizen. The issues were illustrated by various artists across full pages, consistently maintaining a sharply satirical tone that attacked the establishment and the wealthy. The weekly took an anti-Dreyfus stance, and from time to time, anti-Semitic caricatures against Jews appeared in it. More than two hundred cartoonists participated in the publication, one-third of whom were Europeans who came to train in Paris or were exiled for political reasons, and one hundred and thirty of them produced at least one entire issue.
[16] pages. Tear with slight loss at the bottom corner without affecting the text. Condition good.
