{"id":2692,"date":"2013-08-21T14:31:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T18:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2013-10-22T10:55:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T14:55:17","slug":"le-milieu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2013\/08\/21\/le-milieu\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Milieu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/08\/milieu_000001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2703 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/08\/milieu_000001-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/08\/milieu_000001-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/08\/milieu_000001-834x1024.jpg 834w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Considered one of the greatest illustrators of the French press is Jean Sennep, also known as Jean-Jacques Charles Pennes, who worked for several French newspapers including <em>Candide<\/em> and <em>Le Figaro<\/em>.\u00a0 He also published quite a few volumes of his cartoons including <em>Le Milieu<\/em> which has 52 full pages of political cartoons that primarily expose the shenanigans and corruption of French politics in the 1930s.\u00a0 Sennep was typically considered to be part of the French Right and anti-communist, nationalistic, and often anti-Semitic.\u00a0 His cartoons show a very definite nationalistic point of view and echoed a lot of popular opinion for the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/08\/milieu_000003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2698 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/08\/milieu_000003-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/08\/milieu_000003-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/08\/milieu_000003-746x1024.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below you can see a caricature of Leon Blum and Edouard Daladier, both members of the government in 1934.\u00a0 Sennep appears to be referring to the February 6th street demonstration that was organized by far-right groups and ended up in a riot by the French National Assembly.\u00a0 Several people were killed and many were injured during the riot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/08\/milieu_000004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2710 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/08\/milieu_000004-867x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/08\/milieu_000004-867x1024.jpg 867w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/08\/milieu_000004-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To look at more cartoons look in Hollis for<a href=\"http:\/\/hollis.harvard.edu\/?itemid=|library\/m\/aleph|013756196\" target=\"_blank\"> Le Milieu \/ Sennep; pr\u00e9face de Ren\u00e9 Benjamin. Paris : Floury, 1934. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Alison Harris, Santo Domingo Project Manager for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. 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