Before Social Media, There Were Postcards
On the first modern media event in fin-de-siècle France
In October 1899, Parisians could purchase a large color lithograph depicting a grotesque human-pig hybrid, complete with spectacles and a curly tail, wielding a paintbrush and smearing a map of France with this brown “caca international”—“international poo." The picture was a caricature of the novelist Émile Zola, or “Le roi ...
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