Bécassine, the little Breton maid created in 1905 for La Semaine de Suzette by Caumery (text) and Joseph-Porphyre Pinchon (art) — naive, devoted and well-meaning, she lives through the Belle Époque, the Great War and the Roaring Twenties. The 18 albums published up to 1930, from L'Enfance de Bécassine (1913) to Bécassine en aéroplane (1930), plus the Alphabet (1921) and Bécassine maîtresse d'école (1929). Context: period regional caricature of Bretons, dated stereotypes and 1914–1918 wartime propaganda. In French. Public domain.
Episodes
18
Pages
1109
Language
français
Rating
All ages
Attribution
Bécassine, texte de Caumery (Maurice Languereau, 1867–1941), dessins de Joseph-Porphyre Pinchon (1871–1953), Gautier et Languereau. Public domain: France since 1 Jan 2024 (life+70, Pinchon d. 1953); United States: only albums first published in or before 1930 are included. First-publication years per album from fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bécassine_(bande_dessinée) (album list), cross-checked with the BnF/Gallica record dates of the scanned copies. Scans: Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/becassine-t-19-becassine-dans-la-neige, https://archive.org/details/BcassineAuPensionnatTexte...Caumery18671941Bpt6k321927g1, https://archive.org/details/bcassinevoyage00pincuoft); most are Gallica digitisations — Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France. L'Automobile de Bécassine (1927) is a post-1949 Gautier-Languereau reprint. Endpapers, blank leaves and colour targets left out.
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