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3 unusual facts about Georges Colomb


Christophe

Christophe (Georges Colomb (1856–1945), French comic strip artist and botanist

Georges Colomb

Under the pseudonym Christophe (playing on "Christophe Colomb", the French name for Columbus), Colomb created comics that were popular among the French intelligentsia, yet were published in Le Petit Français illustré, a children's paper.

La Bougie du Sapeur

The newspaper's name (literally, "The Candle of the Sapper") is derived from a comics character, the sapper Camember, created by Georges Colomb in the 1890s.



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