Tabac (Tobacco). J.J. Grandville, Les fleurs animées.
Olivier, Belle de nuit, Immortelle, Myrtle, Tabac, Laurier. J.J. Grandville, Les fleurs animées.
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Tabac (Tobacco). J.J. Grandville, Les fleurs animées.
Olivier, Belle de nuit, Immortelle, Myrtle, Tabac, Laurier. J.J. Grandville, Les fleurs animées.
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Awww, she doesn’t get a character? A wonderful drawing, but now I’m left to wonder what Tabac would have been wearing and doing.
I know, I was disappointed too. I did wonder if it had to do with the whole Amerique business.
Seems likely. Doesn’t seem to be huge amounts of information out there about him, though (not online, at least).
Then again, I did get sidetracked by American Woods when trying to see if Public Domain had more info…
The full volume one is here, and the second one here.
All of Grandville’s work at archive.org: https://archive.org/search.php?query=J.%20J.%20Grandville
He died young, age 44 or 45.
Oh, Public Domain is the worst time sink for me. Anyway, in my head, I picture Tabac in an old Turkish type room, with that lovely hookah. :D
That’s his work, yes, I was more wondering about his intentions behind the drawings… I might have to read the book to find out if there’s anything in there about Tabac at all that might provide explanation. Or maybe it’s just a drawing for the scientific portion of the book. I know what I’m doing tonight.
He didn’t write any of the text, so I assume his drawings related to the stories, whatever they were. I have no idea of what any of it says, outside of a word here and there, but given most of his work, it was on the sly side of societal commentary.
Haha actually Grandville just did not approve of tobacco (translation mine -- errors of grammar and style are all mine):
From Volume 1, page 300. Someone tried to remedy Tabac’s absence in an Erratum plate, where it appears together with a few other plants, in character.
* causes to reek, a new word (c) rq 2017
Volume 2, *ahem* (“Seconde partie”).
Hee. Grandville didn’t write any of the text, just did the illustrations. I don’t know who did the writing. My, my. Someone didn’t like how much French people took to smokin’. :D
I forgot about the Erratum! Added.
Oo, bad me for not checking the author of that bit -- that was some dude with the last name of Foelix, by the Cte prefix, probably a count of some sort. Oh, the outrage!
I’m loving Laurier’s grouchy face and mismatched outfit -- esp. the shoes. What was he doing last night that he couldn’t get properly dressed this morning? :D
Ohhh. Would have been a diatribe about the rabble, I s’pose. Tsk.
Oh, that I expect, is the roots of Laurier being Roman, they started that whole Laurel wreath nonsense, which leaked down the ages into the French aristocracy.
The reeking rabble (and those stinky English), the brutes.
It’s still a funny outfit and it makes me laugh, when what he’s trying to be is dignified and lordly and I bet Tabac’s smoke is getting all up in his airspace and numbing his senses and rotting his teeth.
He looks utterly pissed that he can’t take Immortelle out. The rivalry! I love that Myrtle looks stricken with love for Tabac. I have a thing for myrtle, love them. And Olivier, the most sensible, having a nap. I’d like a nap, and I’m barely up. Time for Café and Tabac.
Just had my afternoon dose of both. No nap yet, though.
I think Belle de Nuit is the most obviously alright with everything, Tabac just doesn’t really give a shit about anything, though Myrtle should just use her words and see where things go. But Laurier will have issues taking Immortelle out, after all she has the scythe and he just has a jambon.
The main Immortelle features the scythe, which is broken. That’s why Laurier is so pissed, the story of Apollo and Daphne, the Laurel was thought to be immortal and never prone to decay. Gotta love how Immortelle is supremely unconcerned.