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The career of humorist

Impassioned Operetta and of Bullfighting, Cami sees beginning its comic career by the means of the bulletin of the undertaking… named so well Petit illustrated hearse .

Endowed for the Caricature but more particularly still for a Theater with a daftness seldom reached among the French comic authors, Cami enjoys a great fame as of 1914. It creates characters burlesques extremely appreciated until the Second world war, such as Loufock-Holmès, César Rikiki.

Charlie Chaplin said of him that he was “the largest humorist “in the world”” and Jacques Prévert which, following the example Roland Topor or Jean-Jacques Pauvert and Raymond Devos, was with the account of its admirors, proposed the term of “camisard” to designate its admirors.

He was also the author of " the Camique" week; in the Illustration .

Work

; Pastiches of Alexandre Dumas See this site for a layout of texts of Cami and to read these texts

; Pastiches of Sherlock Holmes No mystery resists large Loufock-Holmès. Among the businesses which it solved: the enigmatic assassination of the tuner of participles, the disappearance of the bells of Chicago, it tragic business of the bloody trunks… Around him several characters revolve: its faithful disciple, the Benoit chief of relative Safety and his sworn enemy: wretched Spectras.

Loufock Holmès, the idiotic detective /Cami. Mr. Labbe, 1908. Booklet of song. Music of Gaston Gaberoche and Adolf Stanislas.
Adventures of Loufock-Holmès /Cami. Paris: Flammarion, 1926,284 p. Contents: Loufock-Holmès against all , Spectras against Loufock-Holmès .
Adventures of Loufock-Holmès /it. Nicolas of Casinière. Nantes: Atalante, 1997,238 p. (Library of the escape). ISBN 2-84172-058-6. Integral resumption of two untraceable works.

; Pastiches of the baron de Münchhausen Cami imagined a parodic, burlesque counterpart Baron de Münchhausen: the Baron de Crac, military French, commander about the Royal-Jabot, courtier of Louis XV. Of its retirement in Gascogne, with the castle Cracodière, it tells with its guests filled with wonder in advance the exploits which established its universal reputation (episodes of hunting, scenes of battles, incidents/accidents, missions of the king…). It has a faithful servant named Dodu. Jean Image will take as a starting point the drawings of Cami to represent the baron of Münchhausen in his cartoon: Fabulous adventures of the legendary baron de Münchhausen (1978).

gallant Exploits of the baron de Crac followed Dramas of pleasure: saynètes . Paris: B. Grasset, 1925,232 p. Rééd. Paris: J. - J. Pauvert, 1972,186 p.
Adventures without similar of the baron de Crac . Paris: Hatchet, 1926,112 p. (Small white library). Texts in line
the Nephew of the baron de Crac . Paris: Hatchet, 1927,108 p. (Small white Library)
Loves of the Baron de Crac . Paris: Gallimard, 1969. (Books of the Company Madeleine Renaud-Jean-Louis Barrault n° 70, quarter 1969).

Reception and critical reception

The specialists in Cami are Michel Laclos and John Crombie. This last, editor and Scottish typographer (Kickshaws editions), publish ignored texts of the humorist.

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