Amédée de Noé
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French illustrator and caricaturist Amédée de Noé a.k.a. Cham (1818–1879)
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A Cham satire on women's fashions
Charles Amédée de Noé, known as Cham (26 January 1818, Paris – 6 September 1879, Paris), was a French caricaturist and lithographer. Raised by a family who wished for him to attend a polytechnic school, he instead attended painting workshops hosted by Nicolas Charlet and Paul Delaroche and began work as a cartoonist. He eventually took up the pseudonym of "Cham".
In 1839, he published his first book, , which began a career that would span 40,000 drawings. In 1843, he began to have his illustrations be published in newspapers like Le Charivari, a publication where he was on staff for thirty years. Later works included and . He wrote a number of comic plays towards the end of his life.
External links[]
Media related to Amédée de Noé at Wikimedia Commons
- Lambiek Comiclopedia article.
- Les folies de la Commune, a fully digitized work by "Cham"
- Blog
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- 1818 births
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- Writers from Paris
- French cartoonists
- French caricaturists
- French editorial cartoonists
- French satirists
- French lithographers
- French comics artists
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