Georges Colomb

See also: Colomb

Georges Colomb , known as Christophe (Lure (Haute-Saône), May 25th 1856 - Nyons, January 3rd 1945) is one of the precursory of the Cartoon in France.

Christophe is especially known to be the author of illustrated stories published in serial at the end of the 19th century. Very fine observer of the company, inspired by the images of Épinal, he is the creator of characters like the Savant Cosine, the Sapeur Camember, the Family Fenouillard and the imps Plick and Plock.
The text of its works is characterized by an extremely required vocabulary, and, in addition, rich in allusions cultural, literary, historical and geographical as much as scientists. The subtle pun is entitled there also its to the service of a humor sometimes mild nutter as in the mischievousnesses of Plick and Plock, sometimes satirist ( the Family Fenouillard ), ironic but always tendre.
The notoriety of its boards should not make forget that it took part fully in the life of its time. Friend of Jean Jaurès, Baudrillard and Tristan Bernard, he was also botanist of reputation and pedagog moralist. He also gave private lessons to the Dreyfus children at the time of the business.

Biography

Wire of the main thing of the college of his city, Eugene Nicolas Colomb is the fourth child of the family. He studies with Besancon. The medium of its childhood will inspire later to him the decorations of the Sapeur Camember . Graduate arts at 16 years, science into 18, it integrates the National university in 1878, where it obtains a license of Mathematics, Physical sciences then of Natural science (among its school-fellows Henri Bergson appears). At its exit, he marries Helene Jacquet in 1882 and teaches the natural science with the future Lycée Condorcet where he will count among his pupils the young person Marcel Proust. In 1884, it is named professor with the college Faidherbe with Lille whose city strongly will inspire it for the family Fenouillard . It passes its Doctorat of sciences in 1887.

It supplements its income by drawings in various newspapers and starts to make appear in 1889 the first bands of the family Fenouillard , which hardly likes its hierarchy. It continues its publications under the pseudonym of Christophe (in reference to large the Christophe Colomb).

Of return to Paris it is named university lecturer with the Sorbonne where it finishes its career at the post of sub-manager of the laboratory of botany.

Untiring teaching, it will give courses to the college of young girls of Sévigné up to 70 years.

During the Second world war, it takes refuge with its family in the southern zone. He dies of the continuations of an obstruction of the bowels. He is buried in Asnières.

Quotations

  • Sic itur AD will astra said to him each year the eminent man who chaired the solemn distribution of the prices. “Yes, me sior”, answered Zéphyrin which, enthusiast of exact sciences, had not included/understood anything with this literary quotation. (The obsession of the scientist Cosine)

  • life, alas! is only one fabric of stabs which it is necessary to know to drink drop by drop; and, I say it highly, for me the culprit is innocent! (Jokes of the Camember sapper)

  • Notwithstanding, me sior the major, that the discipline mélétaire it is not subsequent thing, I would like to tighten you the grip. (Jokes of the Camember sapper)

  • Will know, my daughters, that we are atoms thrown in the pit bottomless of the infinite one. (The Fenouillard family)

  • When the terminals passed it has there no more limits. (The obsession of the scientist Cosine)

  • I know Paris like my pocket. Especially conveys some, the prohibited directions, the dead ends, the short cuts. I like the paving stones and certain places which impress me with the manner of the surrealist ones.

Works

Work drawn:

  • the first 1887 drawings in reviews for children
  • In the review the Small illustrated French:
    • the Family Fenouillard, 53 serials between on August 31st 1889 and on June 24th 1893,
    • jokes of the Sapper Camember, 55 serials between on January 4th 1890 and on September 12th 1896,
    • the obsession of the Erudite Cosine, 62 serials between on December 9th 1893 and on November 23rd 1899, which contains its famous invention the Anémélectroreculpédalicoupeventombrosoparacloucycle
    • the mischievousnesses of Plick and Plock, 55 reviews in 10 years between 1893 and 1904.
    • the baron de Cramoisy (not completed work)

The curious reader will notice the progressive laicization of his albums; Artémise and Cunégonde, the two Fenouillard girls, marry with the church: one sees them knelt with Switzerland beside them. For the Camember sapper nothing is indicated, but when one arrives to the Cosinus scientist one notices that its (false) burial is purely civil, like the east his marriage at the end of the book (and yet Mrs Belazor widowed and was not divorced).

Christophe also illustrated in a very spiritual way of the delirious accounts of which he was not the author: Triumph of Bibulus , Three Miracles of Osiris and the Heritage of the Cousin Agathias , multiplying the tasty anachronisms. (Ancient Tales: texts of CH. Norman, ornamentations by Ruty, 1893, Armand Colin Editor. Several republications)

Written chronicles:

  • Ric and Rac
  • the Small illustrated French
  • the French Jura
  • Library of Small French

Theatrical work:

  • With Humble Pierre: the marriage of the scientist Cosine , part in three acts (1928)

Others:
Teacher, it knew to interest of the generations of pupils by his methods where the doubt, the analytical mind, the critical spirit held a broad place. He impassioned himself for research and modern pedagogy, by introducing the drawing and the illustrations.
He published, at Armand Colin editor, more than 30 didactic works, of scientific popularization or preparation to the examinations

  • " Lessons of Things in 650 gravures" , work translates abroad,
  • teaching Ouvrages intended for the future teachers,
  • teaching Ouvrages intended for the pupils of the secondary,
  • Travaux, of the left hand, on the War of Gaules.

Various:

  • Talks of scientific popularization on Radio-Paris

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