Eight anti-Semitic Issues of the French Le Pelerin. Late 19th and early 20th centuries

Eight anti-Semitic Issues of the French Le Pelerin. Late 19th and early 20th centuries

Eight issues with anti-Semitic caricatures of the French 'Le Pelerin'. On the last page of each issue is an anti-Semitic cartoon, some of them anti-Dreyfus. Late 19th and early 20th centuries. Complete Issues.

Issue No. 1083, October 3, 1897

Issue No. 1085, October 17, 1897

Issue No. 1093, December 12, 1897

Issue No. 1106, March 13, 1898 (On the last page of this issue is a cartoon showing "those whom Christ defeated", among which Emile Zola is seen collapsing on the ground. The inside pages of this issue contains an illustrated story describing how the Jew tries to invent a physical law that will make him to take over France).

Issue No. 1174, July 2, 1899 - Large anti-Dreyfus cartoon

Issue No. 1191, October 29, 1899

Issue No. 1768, 20 November 1910

Issue No. 1794, May 21, 1911

Le Pèlerin is a French weekly newspaper that began on July 12, 1873. Founded by the Bayard Presse journalist group, which formed the initial nucleus. The founders set out to strengthen the Catholic presence, adopting an anti-Semitic line for this purpose, and from time to time cartoons appeared accusing the Jews of the ills of French society, along with religiously motivated accusations about Jesus and Christianity. The cartoons were created by Achille Lemot, and later illustrated by Amédée Vignola and Henri Genévrier. The newspaper's headlines usually had a belligerent statement, and in the Dreyfus affair the paper was one of its opponents. Beginning in 1896, the title pages appeared in color and the circulation of the newspaper reached some 150,000 copies.

Complete Issues. Overall Condition Good.