Charles Philipon was a French lithographer, caricaturist and journalist.
25 Facts About Charles Philipon
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Charles Philipon was the founder and director of the satirical political journals La Caricature and of Le Charivari.
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Charles Philipon's father, Etienne Philipon, was a hatter and wallpaper manufacturer.
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Charles Philipon left his hometown in 1819 to work under the artist Antoine Gros in Paris but returned at his father's behest in 1821 to join the family business, designing fabric for three years.
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Charles Philipon finally left Lyon for Paris where he reunited with old friends from the workshop Gros.
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Charles Philipon found employment as a lithographer and artist drawing for picture books and fashion magazines.
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Charles Philipon showed invention by converting a lead chimney to a lithographic machine.
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Charles Philipon bonded with the liberals and satirists of the day, attended the Grandville workshop, and two years later joined forces with the creators of the newspaper La Silhouette, on which he worked as an editor and designer.
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On 15 December 1829 Charles Philipon sent his son and business partner, Gabriel Aubert, to set up the Aubert publishing house Aubert, competing with other printing shops in Paris.
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On 1 December 1832, while imprisoned, Charles Philipon published Le Charivari, an illustrated daily with four pages in a smaller than Caricature format.
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Charles Philipon chooses his collaborators, dealing with suppliers in the market as well as financial management.
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Chief editor and friend of Charles Philipon, Balzac, contributed extensively in this period, signing his articles under various pseudonyms.
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Charles Philipon illustrated its defense by the metamorphosis by drawing, in four stages, the King's face evolving into a pear.
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Charles Philipon was tried for this piece and the prosecution called this piece "a provocation of murder".
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Charles Philipon responded with, "It would be at most a provocation to make marmalade".
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Charles Philipon was transferred to the prison Sainte- Pelagie, and home health Dr Pinel, where the regime is more favorable.
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Charles Philipon returned to Sainte- Pelagie 5 September 1832 and was finally released from prison Feb 5,1833.
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At the time of his first political cartoons, Charles Philipon had already established contacts with Republican circles.
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Charles Philipon was accompanied by a lithograph Travies ironically titled " Personification of the sweetest and most humane system ", where the body of the "patriots" murdered forms an image of Louis-Philippe back.
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In November 1835, Le Charivari is sold for a pittance, but Charles Philipon canned Officer until 1838.
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Charles Philipon knew how to group, launch and inspire those artists which he employed, to inoculate them with his gall and his audacity, furnish them with ideas and legends, brave prosecutions and condemnations, and thus this obscure man became one of the most dangerous adversaries of the new king, preventing the monarch from acquiring that prestige required to truly establish himself.
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In October 1829 Charles Philipon launched a career in journalism as a co-founder of La Silhouette.
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Charles Philipon made a minor financial investment and became a contributor without final editorial control.
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Charles Philipon, who had carefully left the caricature unsigned, escaped the scandal's repercussions.
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Charles Philipon was the director of the satirical political newspapers La Caricature and of Le Charivari, which included lithographs by some of France's leading caricaturists such as JJ Grandville, Honore Daumier, Paul Gavarni, Charles-Joseph Travies, Benjamin Roubaud and others.