Jean
Pennes
was born in
France in 1894. Although Pennes did not have
any formal art training by sixteen his cartoons were being accepted
by French newspapers. Pennes, who signed his work J. Sennep, freelanced
until being called up into the French Cavalry
on the outbreak of the First World War.
After the Armistice Sennep worked as
a journalist and cartoonist. His work appeared in most of the leading
French newspapers and eventually he became the senior cartoonist at
Le Figaro. During the 1930s and
1940s Sennep's attacks on Adolf Hitler
and his fellow Nazis rivalled those of
David Low in Britain.
J. Sennep,
Marshal Petain offers
Herman Goering another award (1943)
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