L'Éclipse

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L'Éclipse was a French magazine of the nineteenth century, appearing from 1868 to 1876. Edited by Francis Polo, L'Éclipse was a showcase for the illustrator André Gill, in which he drew caricatures of his illustrious contemporaries.{{cite book|author=Robert Justin Goldstein|title=Censorship of Political Caricature in Nineteenth-century France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vIA1F2Qm0WgC&pg=PA25|accessdate=12 June 2015|date=January 1989|publisher=Kent State University Press|isbn=978-0-87338-396-7|page=25}}

Napoleon III disliked the portrait of him drawn by Gill in La Lune. In December 1867, the journal was censored. "La Lune will have to undergo an eclipse," an authority commented to Editor Francis Polo when the ban was instituted, unwittingly dubbing Polo's subsequent publication: L'Eclipse, which made its first appearance on 9 August 1868.

L'Éclipse would itself suffer from twenty-two seizures by the law. It consisted only of one page, due to governmental restrictions.{{cite book|author=Robert Justin Goldstein|title=The War for the Public Mind: Political Censorship in Nineteenth-century Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MaBEwU5XbXcC&pg=PA160|accessdate=12 June 2015|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-96461-0|page=160}}

File:Gill Théophile Gautier.jpg|Caricature of Théophile Gautie, 5 April 1868

File:Gill Sainte Beuve.jpg|Sainte-Beuve, 1868

File:Gill Gustave Doré.jpg|Caricature of Gustave Doré, 1868

File:Gill Auber.jpg|Caricature of Auber, 1868

File:Gill Granier de Cassagnac A.jpg|Caricature of Adolphe Granier, 1868

File:EmileOllivierAndréGill.jpg|Caricature of Émile Ollivier, 1868

File:Champfleury André Gill L'Eclipse.jpg|« Champfleury » 1868

File:Gill-Nillson.jpg|Caricature of Christina Nilsson as Ophelia, 5 April 1868

File:Gill Adolphe Crémieux.jpg|Caricature of Adolphe Crémieux, 1869

File:Gill Wagner.jpg|Caricature of Richard Wagner, 18 April 1869

File:Jean-Baptiste Troppmann - André Gill.jpg|Jean-Baptiste Troppmann, 23 January 1870

File:Gill Hippolyte de Lorgeril.jpg|Caricature of Hippolyte de Lorgeril, 1874