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    Unless otherwise stated all pictures on this page have been scanned from engravings and other publications in our own collection. All rights of reproduction reserved.

 

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Artist: Cham
published in Charivari, 7 December 1862

    The caption reads: “M. Berlioz giving soon a European concert and beating time with an electric telegraph pole.”

 

“Hector Berlioz”

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Artist: Étienne Carjat
published in Le Boulevard in 1863

    A copy of this cartoon is in the Musée Hector Berlioz.

 

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Artist: Ad. Tournachon – c. 1888, after Étienne Carjat
Carjat’s original cartoon was published in Le Boulevard in 1863

    The above item is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

 

Les Troyens 1863

Artist: Firmin Gillot – 1863
published in La vie parisienne on 21 November 1863

    A copy of this edition of La vie parisenne is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The reference is to the performances of Les Troyens at the Théâtre Lyrique in November 1963. See the collection of cartoons about these performances in Le Journal amusant reproduced on a separate page.

© (unless otherwise stated) Monir Tayeb and Michel Austin.

 
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