L'Annee politique en images - 'The Political Year in Pictures' Booklets 1, 2, 3, 4. years: 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903-1904. France. Rare.
In pamphlets, hundreds of color cartoons by the illustrator J.BELON over entire pages, covering the political year in France, accompanied by short inscriptions. Extensive reference to the Dreyfus affair at its end after its his final acquittal (especially in Booklet No. 1 which summarizing the year 1900). Dreyfus' acquittal is described in them as a disaster for France, and the message is that Dreyfus is the one who gave the Jews a status of power they never had, and France will pay dearly for it. Likewise, a reference to the events that took place in France over an entire year every year in the years 1900-1904, with an antisemitic tone blaming the Jews for the political disasters that befell French society. The four booklets are an introduction by HENRI ROCHEFORT in which he explains that the excessive ugliness of the characters in the cartoons corresponds to the real character of them in reality.
Booklets 1-4. Original illustrated covers. Booklets 1 and 4 reinforcements with adhesive tape on the cover. general condition good.
