Satire Le Tintamarre – French satirical weekly, 1882

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The Tintamarre is a French satirical weekly, dated 1882, 48 x 33 cm, half-leather binding, 41st year, 8 pp. per week, some foxing.

The Tintamarre is a French satirical weekly published between 1843 and 1899. Following its first issue on 19 March 1843, The Tintamarre was definitively launched on 2 April of the same year by Jules Lovy and Auguste Commerson, respectively editor-in-chief and director.

The title, a colloquial synonym for 'noise', was chosen for its resemblance to that of a previous publication by Commerson, Le Tam-Tam. Its subtitle, 'critique of advertising, satire of puffists', announced the humorous and impertinent ambition of its columns, where witty and fanciful texts on contemporary literary, artistic and industrial novelties rubbed shoulders with advertisements.
Most articles were signed with pseudonyms, Lovy and Commerson sharing, for example, the pen name—or rather heteronym—of 'Joseph Citrouillard'.
In 1850, its circulation reached 2,300 copies.
Co-owner of the newspaper with Commerson since 1868, Léon Bienvenu, known as Touchatout, became its owner and editor-in-chief in March 1872.
During the 1890s, the newspaper's publication became intermittent and finally ceased on 31 December 1899, after fifty-nine years of continuous issues and 2,672 numbers published.

Despite the rarity of its humorous drawings, historian Bertrand Joly considers The Tintamarre to be 'the most direct ancestor of Le Canard enchaîné'.