Faustin Betbeder [SEP] place of birth
Faustin Betbeder
Faustin Betbeder was born in Soissons, France in 1847 and lived until sometime around 1914. He became an artist, noted for his unflattering caricatures of personalities from both sides of the Franco-Prussian war and its aftermath. He had difficulty in finding a publisher for the first set of these in 1870 and finally published them himself, selling over 50,000 copies. After the war he moved to Britain where he produced a less political series of caricatures of well-known British personalities to be published in "The London
daily until March 18, 1871. At this point it changed format from a newspaper to a weekly magazine owing to the withdrawal of its financial support as a result of French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.
Among those who contributed to it were William Archer (writing as "Almaviva", drama critic), Ernest Bendall, Faustin Betbeder ("Faustin", caricaturist), Percy Betts ("Cherubino", musical critic), Ambrose Bierce ("Passing Showman", "Town Crier"),