Adolphe WILLETTE - Alphonse ALLAIS - Jean LORRAINLivre Rare Book
Le Chat noir N°152 de la troisième année du samedi 6 Décembre 1884
188481921Paris: Au cabaret Le Chat noir 1884. Fine. Au cabaret Le Chat noir Paris 1884 31 x 45 cm en feuillets First edition one of the rare copies on laid paper. The issue consists of 4 pages and is illustrated with a comic strip by Adolphe Willette on an interior page: ""Monstres de Paris. Les peintres incompris : M. Carolus Durand"". Literary contributions by Alphonse Allais ""Moeurs de ce temps-ci"" Georges d'Esparbès ""Les juges"" Jean Lorrain ""Miss Miser"" Camille de Sainte-Croix ""La chanson de la mer de Victor Margueritte"" under the semi-pseudonym of Xernand Fau ""La guerre aux abus"". Handsome copy. Le Chat noir is a weekly review created by Rodolphe Salis and Emile Goudeau published from 1882 to 1897 with the aim of promoting the famous cabaret of the same name whose memory it sought to preserve. The texts declaimed during performances were published there. It constitutes moreover an important literary and artistic testimony of the late nineteenth century centered around bohemian life and the Parisian effervescence that characterized it. Au cabaret Le Chat noir unknown
