Didier Dubucq

The tone was resolutely anticlerical: this periodical arose in a sensitive context, at least in France where the "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State" was adopted on 9 December 1905.

[3] Originally established in Belgium, Les Corbeaux appeared on Sundays and was sold for 10 centimes, in a Catholic country where clerics clashed on one side with "liberals" on the other.

After a few months, the periodical was gradually boycotted in the kiosks and railway stations: Dubucq attacked the government and the monarchy which justified the exploitation of workers in the name of a conservatism based on religion.

In April 1905, Dubucq chose to leave for Paris where he re-established his journal at 11 rue du Croissant, surrounded by a team composed of Maurice Barthélemy, Dr. Simon N., the Belgian Joseph Ghysen, who headed Le Lanternier, Pierre Érard and a certain Gardanne.

These 16 x 18 cm leaflets with anti-clerical drawings on fifteen different subjects were to be distributed "at conferences, public meetings, polling station doors, cafes", as well as posters to be pasted, calendars, almanacs and quantities of postcards (about 150).