Here’s another postscript to my recent book, 100 Cartoons from Le Chat Noir. I was surprised to find that some of the cartoons in this quintessentially Bohemian paper were reprinted by the old firm of Pellerin, in Épinal, as “Images d’Épinal” intended for children. Here are a couple of them. The Chat Noir cartoons were wordless, and in black and white; Pellerin added color and text.

The first one, by Uzès [Désiré-Achille Valentin], appeared in Le Chat Noir on November 6, 1886, as “The Skaters.” The second, by Eugène-Louis Mouël, appeared on June 19, 1886, under the same title as its Épinal incarnation.

(Posted by Doug Skinner)