Bertall

On the advice of Balzac, who mentored him, he began signing his works under the name of Bertall, an adjusted anagram of his middle name.

He married Albertine Cesarine Elisabeth Pellapra de Lolle and became the father of triplets on 17 August 1866.

He provided 3,600 drawings for Les Romans populaires illustrés, published in 30 volumes by Gustave Barba between 1849 and 1855.

Types, caractères, costumes, was interpreted by scholar Michael Dorsch as "play[ing] into the public anxiety over the destructive force of the Commune through the depiction of established social norms thrown helter-skelter.

"[2]: 63  Bertall claims a lack of political bias, owing to the fact that his drawings were based on his own eye-witness experience, but Dorsch assesses the book as decidedly propagandistic, associating Communards with violence and criminality.