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...French politics, a kind of national sport distinguished for its rabidity and subtlety, newspaper cartoonists carry weight. Two, at least, possess gifts equal to their importance: H. P. Gassier, contributor to the brilliant Leftist weekly Le Canard Enchaine, and J. Sennep, of such sheets as Paris-Soir (nicknamed, as the organ of the French sugar trust, Paris-Sucre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Penn | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...howling ribaldry of Sennep's attacks on French Left and Centre politicians has made thousands of Frenchmen think of him as an extreme Rightist. In the past few weeks Cartoonist Sennep has surprised them with an anti-Fascist campaign in the daily Epoque. Last week he avowed: "It's true I've taken more digs at Left politicians but that's because they are so much funnier to draw." Patent-leather smooth, dark, fat, affable J. Sennep's real name is Jean-Jacques Charles Pennes. One brother, General Roger Pennes, is a bigwig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Penn | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Since then the Sennep drawings, which serious artists frankly admire for their mordant economy and caricaturing impact, have made him second only to Britain's great David Low (TIME. July n ) in European popularity. He was once honored with formal suppression by the French police, who seized a special all-Sennep number of Le Rire in which it had amused the cartoonist to portray the various members of the Chamber of Deputies as the aged, bearded and hairy houris of a gigantic brothel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Penn | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Ordinarily, Sennep's wit has saved his fantastic obscenities from suppression and himself from duels and beatings-up. This year he and Gassier had the cartoonist's equivalent of a retrospective show in the form of a book, Histoire de France 1918-1938, reviving their more famous drawings of the past 20 years, including Sennep's recent (1936) Embarcation for Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Penn | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...punctually Editor Aymard and Cartoonist Sennep turned up arm-in-arm in La Salle des Pas-Perdus (the hall of lost footsteps) in which journalists and deputies pace. They were set upon by a pack of Socialist statesmen. Elderly Editor Aymard jerked a dog whip from his pocket, laid about him. Deputy Barthe, a questor of the Chamber, rushed up in an attempt to preserve order as was his duty, caught the whip full across his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Briand, Parliament & Fist fights | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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