Le Tintamarre
{{Short description|French satirical newspaper (1843-1899)}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Le Tintamarre
| image = Tintamarre, bandeau (1882-03-05).jpeg
| caption = Masthead of Le Tintamarre from March 5, 1882. The coat of arms was designed by Georges Lafosse in April 1876.{{cite journal |title=Le Tintamarre|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6111160n?rk=21459;2|journal=Le Tintamarre|language=fr|access-date=March 28, 2025 |date=April 30, 1876 |page=1}}
| type = Satirical weekly
| founder = Jules Lovy
Auguste Commerson
| foundation = {{start date|1843|03|19}}
| ceased publication = {{end date|1899|12|31}}
| publishing_country = France
| publishing_city = Paris
| language = French
| editor = Auguste Commerson (1843–1872)
Léon Bienvenu (Touchatout) (1872–1899)
| ISSN = 2427-6421
}}
Le Tintamarre was a French satirical weekly newspaper published from 1843 to 1899.
History
Following a debut issue on March 19, 1843, Le Tintamarre was officially launched on April 2 of that year by Jules Lovy and Auguste Commerson, serving as editor-in-chief and director, respectively.{{cite journal |title=Le Tintamarre |date=April 2, 1843|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5670412z|journal=Le Tintamarre|access-date=March 28, 2025|language=fr |page=1}}
The title, a colloquial French term for "noise" or "racket," was chosen for its similarity to Commerson's earlier publication, Le Tam-Tam.{{cite book |last=Audebrand |first=Philibert |title=Un Café de journalistes sous Napoléon III |trans-title=A Journalists' Café under Napoleon III|language=fr|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WS2yI-7ZImsC |location=Paris |publisher=Dentu |year=1888 |page=336}} Its subtitle, "critique de la réclame, satire des puffistes" ("criticism of advertising, satire of puffery"), reflected the paper's humorous and irreverent tone. Its pages featured witty, whimsical commentary on contemporary literary, artistic, and industrial developments alongside advertisements.
Most articles were penned under pseudonyms, with Lovy and Commerson sharing the heteronym "Joseph Citrouillard," among others. By 1850, the paper's circulation reached 2,300 copies.{{cite journal |title=Le Tintamarre|journal=Le Tintamarre|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5670785w.item|language=fr|access-date=March 28, 2025 |date=December 8, 1850 |page=4}}
File:Rédaction du Tintamarre (L'Indépendance parisienne, 1868-04-26).jpeg
In 1868, Léon Bienvenu, known as Touchatout, became co-owner alongside Commerson. By March 1872, he assumed full ownership and took on the roles of director and editor-in-chief.{{cite journal |title=Le Tintamarre|journal=Le Tintamarre|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55967585.item|access-date=March 28, 2025|language=fr |date=April 21, 1872 |page=1}} After parting ways with Le Tintamarre, Commerson revived Le Tam-Tam, which continued until 1918.{{cite journal|last1=Commerson|last2=Bapaume|first2=Amable|title=Le Tam-Tam|location=Paris|issn=2019-3815 |journal=Le Tam-Tam|url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb328757416 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France|language=fr |access-date=March 28, 2025}}
During the 1890s, publication became irregular, ceasing entirely on December 31, 1899, after 59 years and 2,672 issues. Though it rarely featured humorous illustrations, historian Bertrand Joly considers Le Tintamarre "the most direct ancestor of Le Canard enchaîné".{{cite book |last=Joly |first=Bertrand |title=Dictionnaire biographique et géographique du nationalisme français (1880–1900) |trans-title=Biographical and Geographical Dictionary of French Nationalism (1880–1900)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dAsiAQAAIAAJ|isbn=9782745312419 |location=Paris |publisher=Honoré Champion|language=fr |year=2005 |page=215}}
Notable contributors
{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|* Théodore de Banville (Francis Lambert){{cite book |last=d'Heylli |first=Georges |title=Dictionnaire des pseudonymes |trans-title=Dictionary of Pseudonyms|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5600921q/f458.image.r=Trimm%20Timoth%C3%A9e.langFR |location=Paris |publisher=Dentu |year=1887}}
- Amable Bapaume (Henri Normand)
- Alfred Barbou (Brévannes){{Harvtxt|Mermet |1880|p=328}}
- Charles Baudelaire (Marc-Aurèle){{cite book |last=Quérard |first=Joseph-Marie |title=Les Supercheries littéraires dévoilées |trans-title=Literary Hoaxes Unveiled|language=fr|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yeo-AAAAcAAJ |edition=2nd |volume=II (F-O) |location=Paris |publisher=Daffis |year=1869}}
- Léon Bienvenu (Touchatout)
- Gaston Bing (Bengali){{cite journal |title=L'Intransigeant|journal=L'Intransigeant|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7760404/f1.image|language=fr|access-date=March 28, 2025 |date=March 7, 1884 |page=3}}
- Hippolyte Briollet
- Amand Chemin (Armand Menich){{cite journal |title=La Comédie politique|journal=La Comédie politique|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k67861788/f1.image|language=fr|access-date=March 28, 2025 |date=May 14, 1882 |page=3}}
- E. Chomet (Grandgousier)
- Auguste Commerson
- Alfred Delilia{{cite journal |title=Le Rappel|journal=Le Rappel|language=fr|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7533360p/f1.image|access-date=March 28, 2025 |date=November 1, 1872 |page=2}}
- Auguste Deslinières (Beausapin){{Cite book|last=Mermet|first=Émile|year=1883|title=Annuaire de la presse française|language=fr|trans-title=Yearbook of the French Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xto9AAAAYAAJ|page=57}}
- Charles Desmarets (Chapelou)
- Raoul Fauvel
- Jules JouyHis first article, "Mauvaise foi" ("Bad Faith"), attacking an enemy of Victor Hugo, appeared in Le Tintamarre on April 23, 1876, p. 3 — [https://www.retronews.fr/journal/le-tintamarre/23-avril-1876/96/1164145/3 available on Retronews].
- Alphonse Lafitte{{cite journal |title=Le Tintamarre |date=November 12, 1871|journal=Le Tintamarre|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5596732x|language=fr|access-date=March 28, 2025 |pages=3–4}}
- Pierre-Charles Lamarle (Paul Faulquemont){{Harvtxt|Rossignol |1865|p=141-151}}
- Charles-Théodore Leroy
- Jules Lovy (Eugène Desmares,{{Harvtxt|Quérard |1869|p=918-919}} Théodore Langlois,{{Harvtxt|Quérard |1869|p=657}} Léonidas Prudhomme, Jérôme Soldièze{{Harvtxt|Quérard |1869|p=269, 700}})
- Georges Maillard{{Harvtxt|Rossignol |1865|p=154}}
- Edmond Martin
- Maurice Millot (Orphée)
- Alfred Paulon (Cabrion)
- Léon Pujol (Tantinet,{{Harvtxt|Quérard |1869|p=760}} Léon Laforêt)
- G. Rémi (Gargantua)
- Jules Rohaut, known as Jules Dementhe (John Stick, Jean Lhuillier)
- Léon Rossignol
- Auguste Roussel, de Méry{{cite journal |title=Le Tintamarre|journal=Le Tintamarre|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56703917.item|language=fr|access-date=March 28, 2025 |date=February 3, 1850 |page=3}}
- Edmond Thion
- Salvador Tuffet (Georges Procope)
- Eugène Vachette (Eugène Chavette){{Harvtxt|Rossignol |1865|p=108}}
- Auguste Vitu (Joseph d'Estienne)
- Guillaume Walther, known as Jehan Valter (Docteur Vabontrain){{Harvtxt|Quérard |1869|p=889}}}}
See also
Notes
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book |last=Mermet |first=Émile |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5601445q |title=Annuaire de la presse française |trans-title=Yearbook of the French Press |location=Paris |year=1880 |pages=326–328 |language=fr}}
- {{cite book |last=Rossignol |first=Léon |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k206643d.texteImage |title=Nos petits journalistes |trans-title=Our Little Journalists |location=Paris |publisher=Gosselin |year=1865 |pages=141–151 |language=fr}}
External links
{{Commons category|Le Tintamarre}}
- [https://www.retronews.fr/titre-de-presse/tintamarre Presentation of Le Tintamarre] on Retronews.
- [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb32877684p/date.item Issues of Le Tintamarre] on Gallica.
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