D'Ache, Caran. Carnet de Checques ["Checkbook": spoof on Jewish financiers]

(ANTISEMITICA)

E. Plon, Nourrit et C[ompagn]ie

Paris

n.d. (late 1880s-early 1890s)

French. Black and white cartoons

The caricaturist Caran D'Ache was a member of a group of Parisian artists who displayed deeply anti-Semitic bias in their illustrations. Once the infamous "L'Affair" came along, Caran D'Ache, together with Forain, founded the notorious anti-Dreyfusard illustrated magazine Pssst…! (1898). As witnessed by the caricatures in our booklet, the artist subscribed to the stereotypical notion that the French economy and bourse were controlled by a cabal of Jewish bankers led by Baron Rothschild. See N.L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair (1987), pp. 63, 68-9, 76, 83, 85, 90, 91