#gerbault

Derniere cartouche - Tache que ton maillot craque... ça le décidera peut-être  !

French sailor Alain Jacques Georges Marie Gerbault on his Firecrest ship

Amour ! Quand tu nous tiens ! - Non ! mais voulez vous la clef de ma chambre ?

Sketches by Henri Gerbault and Albert Guillaume mentioned in Claudine à l’École by Collette. 

[Claudine and Anaïs, two school girls are searching through lumber in the attic of their school. They find a pile of magazines.]

Bien entendu, nous feuilletons le tas avant de les descendre et je constate qu’il y a là l’Aphrodite de Pierre Louÿs, avec de nombreux numéros du Journal Amusant. Nous nous régalons, Anaïs et moi, émoustillées d’un dessin de Gerbault : Bruits de couloirs, des messieurs en habit noir occupés à chatouiller de gentilles danseuses de l’Opéra, en maillot et en jupe courte, qui gesticulent et piaillent. Les autres élèves sont descendues ; il fait sombre dans le grenier, et nous nous attardons à des images qui nous font rire, des Albert Guillaume, d’un raide !

[”Naturally we had a look at them before bringing them down, and I found they contained The Aphrodite de Pierre Louÿs as well as some issues of the Journal Amusant. We entertained each other, Anaïs and me, with a sketch by Gerbault: Bruits de Couloirs, gentlemen in black suits were flirting with pretty Opera dancers in tights and short dresses, who gestured and giggled. The other students had gone downstairs but we lingered over some scandalous pictures by Albert Guillaume which made us laugh.”

Both Gerbault and Guillaume were risqué cartoonist of the Belle Epoque, it isn’t clear exactly which Gerbault sketch Collette has in mind, suited men and skantily clad dancers were one of his frequent topics, as in the top picture above, however, it is Guillaume who has a sketch called Bruits de Couloirs, the lower image above.

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b530869507

and

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53086946h/

]

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