Jean
Veber was born in Paris in 1864. Trained as a painter, he became a
cartoonist when his brother, Pierre Veber, asked
him to join his journal, Gil Blas.
Veber's nationalistic drawings soon made him one of France's most
popular political cartoonists.
In 1897 his cartoon showing Otto von Bismarck
as a butcher of his people, caused an official outcry. This was followed
four years later by an attack on Edward
VII, whose face was imposed on the
face of the posterior of a leering Britannia. Jean
Veber died in 1928.
Jean Veber,
Shameless Albion (1901)
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