Le Charivari (The Hullabaloo). Year 2, No. 333 (Wednesday, May 7, 1835) Paris. Paperback Quarto, 4 pp.
This issue of the groundbreaking Romanticist satirical magazine Charivari, in addition to various satires of contemporary Parisian culture, features a weird and whimsical cartoon by the ground-breaking Romanticist cartoonist Granville, who pioneered the humorous anthropomorphic style that has since become the paradigm for both children's cartoons. (Compare to his cover illustration for Alphonse Karr's underground journal The Wasps in this archive.) Here, he portrays a high-society ball in the form of a swarm of dancing insects, each representing an individual well-known to the Parisian dance scene; each individual is captioned.
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