Gil Blas

Also known as: Gil Blas, Blas

Culture · Newspapers
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Overview

Gil Blas, the Paris daily founded in 1879 by Auguste Dumont, known for society gossip, light fiction and scandal. It printed a thinly veiled article about Berthe in April 1881 (091.0470), society paragraphs about the family's costume ball in 1883 (098.0199, 098.0271, 098.0276), and in December 1883 a paragraph about «une jeune fille étrangère qui s'occupe exclusivement de peinture» in Marie's quarter (102.0550).

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