THE GRAY MAN, OR SMALL CHRONICLE
N° 1-15, 1817.
Paris, Chez L'Huillier, Libraire-Éditeur, Published by Amédée Feret and Créton. Complete collection. 15 numbers in 15 issues in 2 vol. in-8 bound, 3 folding plates, colored caricatures.
Hatin describes this review as follows: "This small sheet, sometimes happy imitation of the Nain jaune, published in almost each of its issues a caricature where the nobles, the priests and the royalist writers appear under the costumes and in the most grotesque attitudes. It liked to place officers in half-salvage, full of honor and loyalty, in front of foolish and cowardly emigrants. But it especially attacked the clergy, and too often mixed a certain mocking verve with a lot of bad taste and bad wit. Seven issues out of fifteen were condemned by the royal court in Paris to be destroyed as seditious. At the end of 1818, the remains of L'Homme gris, crushed under the judicial condemnations, were collected by Le Nouvel Homme gris " :
THE NEW GRAY MAN
Political and constitutional ephemeris
N° 1, 1818-n° 21, 1819.
Paris, Au Bureau d'abonnement. Published by Cugnet de Montarlot, Cauchois-Lemaire and Louis-Saturnin Brissot-Thivars. Complete collection. 21 numbers in 21 issues in 2 vol. in-8 bound, 1 folding plate, colored caricature and several folding tables (Statistiques de la Chambre des Députés, Paris, 8 mai 1819).
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THE GRAY MAN, OR SMALL CHRONICLE N° 1-15, 1817. Paris, Chez L'Huillier, Libraire-Éditeur, Published by Amédée Feret and Créton. Complete collection. 15 numbers in 15 issues in 2 vol. in-8 bound, 3 folding plates, colored caricatures. Hatin describes this review as follows: "This small sheet, sometimes happy imitation of the Nain jaune, published in almost each of its issues a caricature where the nobles, the priests and the royalist writers appear under the costumes and in the most grotesque attitudes. It liked to place officers in half-salvage, full of honor and loyalty, in front of foolish and cowardly emigrants. But it especially attacked the clergy, and too often mixed a certain mocking verve with a lot of bad taste and bad wit. Seven issues out of fifteen were condemned by the royal court in Paris to be destroyed as seditious. At the end of 1818, the remains of L'Homme gris, crushed under the judicial condemnations, were collected by Le Nouvel Homme gris " : THE NEW GRAY MAN Political and constitutional ephemeris N° 1, 1818-n° 21, 1819. Paris, Au Bureau d'abonnement. Published by Cugnet de Montarlot, Cauchois-Lemaire and Louis-Saturnin Brissot-Thivars. Complete collection. 21 numbers in 21 issues in 2 vol. in-8 bound, 1 folding plate, colored caricature and several folding tables (Statistiques de la Chambre des Députés, Paris, 8 mai 1819).

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THE GRAY MAN, OR SMALL CHRONICLE N° 1-15, 1817. Paris, Chez L'Huillier, Libraire-Éditeur, Published by Amédée Feret and Créton. Complete collection. 15 numbers in 15 issues in 2 vol. in-8 bound, 3 folding plates, colored caricatures. Hatin describes this review as follows: "This small sheet, sometimes happy imitation of the Nain jaune, published in almost each of its issues a caricature where the nobles, the priests and the royalist writers appear under the costumes and in the most grotesque attitudes. It liked to place officers in half-salvage, full of honor and loyalty, in front of foolish and cowardly emigrants. But it especially attacked the clergy, and too often mixed a certain mocking verve with a lot of bad taste and bad wit. Seven issues out of fifteen were condemned by the royal court in Paris to be destroyed as seditious. At the end of 1818, the remains of L'Homme gris, crushed under the judicial condemnations, were collected by Le Nouvel Homme gris " : THE NEW GRAY MAN Political and constitutional ephemeris N° 1, 1818-n° 21, 1819. Paris, Au Bureau d'abonnement. Published by Cugnet de Montarlot, Cauchois-Lemaire and Louis-Saturnin Brissot-Thivars. Complete collection. 21 numbers in 21 issues in 2 vol. in-8 bound, 1 folding plate, colored caricature and several folding tables (Statistiques de la Chambre des Députés, Paris, 8 mai 1819).
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