Léon Hayard

Anti-Dreyfusard moving caricature entitled “Zola dans la mé...lasse !”
Léon Hayard, Paris s.d(1898), 12 x 17.8 cm, a moving caricature
First edition of this anti-Dreyfusard moving caricature printed on cardboard entitled "Zola dans la mé...lasse !" by P. Dous Y'Nell. A paper fastener is used to activate the mechanism of a soldier's arm, wearing red trousers and a red kepi, plunging the writer into a barrel labelled “vidange” “sewage”. This caricature, although printed with 30,000 copies by Léon Hayard - the king of the camelots - is today extremely rare.
Some small foxing, otherwise a beautiful copy.
These ephemeral, extremely fragile, paper games were distributed in orde

First edition of this anti-Dreyfusard tract, published after “J'accuse”. This virulent pamphlet takes the macabre form of a death notice, with a black border as was usual at the time, calling on its readers to “come to the procession, service, and funeral of this pornographer and defender of the traitor Dreyfus”.
Nicknamed the “king of the street pedlars”, the publisher Léon Hayard specialized in political pamphlets and more specifically satirical obituaries and wills.
Two copies in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, one in the Musée Carnavalet and one in the Britis