EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 29 © 2019 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

70 and accepted before publication. This law obviously was a form of censorship to which Grandville was totally opposed. To make matters worse, the police continually searched his home, an affront that hurt him personally, and was later reflected in a cartoon where he had the police as irritating flies attacking his home. After the law censoring cartoons and caricatures was introduced, Grandville Text continued from page 66 ABOVE: Great Race to the Academic Bell, plate number 2, hand-coloured lithograph, 1844. Some of France’s most important writers trying to place themselves at the French Academy. Among them Alfred de Vigny, Eugène Sue, Alexandre Dumas and Honoré de Balzac. Once you become a member, you have to ring a bell before speaking, hence the title of the piece.