FORAIN (Jean-Louis) - CARAN D'ACHE. psst...! Paris: Librairie Plon, 1898-1899. - 85 fascicules in 2 volumes in-folio, 413 x 280. Bradel demi-maroquin red with corners, smooth spine, preserved cover, case (E. Carayon). Complete collection of the 85 issues of this satirical weekly antidreyfusard journal published by the painter Jean-Louis Forain (1852-1931) and the draftsman Caran d'Ache (1859-1909). It appeared from February 5, 1898 to September 16, 1899, coinciding with the end of the Dreyfus affair, from the trial of Émile Zola before the Cour d'assise de la Seine to the end of the trial for revision of Alfred Dreyfus. Each issue consists of two pages illustrated with black caricatures of the two artists. According to Bertrand Tillier, in Les artistes et l'affaire Dreyfus: 1898-1908: "Forain and Caran d'Ache already enjoyed a solid experience of the image and its own qualities... The subtitle of the psst...! praised [...] the collaboration of two cartoonists as experienced as they were renowned [...] and if he also insisted on the exclusivity of the images, he praised the complementary registers and manners of Forain ("the bitter irony, the piercing line, the biting legend") on the one hand, and Caran d'Ache ("the actuality put into picturesque images, when it is not treated in a pictorial way") on the other hand. Indeed, the psst...! sought to reconcile two graphic worlds, two satirical tones and two visions of the Dreyfus affair, which brought together anti-Semitic, xenophobic, Germanophobic, Catholic, nationalist, militarist, antirepublican, anti-naturalist and anti-Zolian opinions. The two cartoonists had favourite subjects that the specificity of the Case made them compatible: Caran d'Ache was fascinated by the military world, while Forain was obsessed with justice, to the point that some people recognised him as an heir to the Daumier des Gens de justice. Moreover, where Forain was incisive, dark and willingly tragic, Caran d'Ache was