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Suisse and continued training as an apprentice under master lithographer Zépherin
Belliard. By 1830 he was producing caricatures depicting the foibles of the bourgeoisie
and the corruption of the government for Charles Philipon’s satirical political newspaper
Le Caricature
. The scathing political caricatures Daumier produced for
Le Caricature
and
Philipon’s other publications were often fined and censored by King Louis-Philippe’s
officials; in fact the cartoons were so offensive that a single caricature depicting Louis-Philippe
as Gargantua resulted in Daumier receiving a six month prison sentence. Delteil 131.
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