Vingt années de Paris

The collection assembles short sketches and reminiscences portraying two decades of Parisian life through keenly observed, often satirical vignettes. Personal anecdotes and café scenes sit alongside portraits of artists, politicians, and laborers, and episodes in museums, the École des Beaux-Arts, and an asylum. Tone alternates between comic caricature and tender sympathy, exposing social contrasts, artistic ambition, and urban precarity. Occasional imagined letters, biting critiques, and lyrical asides add variety and immediacy. Altogether it forms a mosaic of manners, public spectacles, and the visual sensibility of a caricaturist reflecting on his city.