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On
the second level, the maid fans herself with her feather
duster, and leans on the window. Baby climbs a ladder,
fells down and hurts himself badly. |
In
the attics, where heat is dreadful, the ironer use
an handkerchief for fanning. Her iron fells on a lace
fabric, that it adorns in its way of disastrous burns.
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In
place of a fan, the nurse takes a fly-dusk. She does
not come and help the poor paralytic, who releases
her hot drink bowl. |
The
next door pork butcher, when fanning herself with
a calendar, blows up the fire under her grease pot.
The flame goes to the tank and the woman is severely
burned. |
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In
the meantime she is weighting pepper, the grocer is
fanning with a paper bag. The pepper volatilizes,
and everybody in the shop is sneezing. You only hear
atchi! atchou! atchachou! |
In
a workshop, the florist workers make folded paper
fans. As soon as they move them, feathers, leaves
and light flowers fly by the windows, or become dirty
in the dust. |
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In
a novelty shop, the cashier makes wind with her register
and so lifts a banknote. A theft seezes it and goes
away. |
Not
a fan is a good working tool, the schoolmistress concludes.
- Jeanne and Louise throw up theirs, take books and
notebooks, and from then agree, without idleness,
with the Law of Work, that comes from God. |
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In those
times, young people were told that a lot of things were
very bad for their soul and eternal life : dancing, looking
at opposite sex youg persons, reading a lot of books, speaking
with strangers etc.
Using
fans what of the same kind !
This magnificient
prehistoric non comic strip comes from the 
of Pont-à Mousson (France)
it is
the  of a serial.
This 
is one
of the numerous printer that was very popular during the
whole XIXth century (and parts of XVIIIth and XXth also),
and that are genrally known in France as "Images d'Epinal",
as the most renowned factory was that of the Maison Pellerin
d'Epinal.
The "Imagerie
de Pont-à-Mousson", an industrial city of east
of France (not very far from Epinal) was active from 1849
to 1914. Like Maison Pellerin, they produced mostly religious
themes (declining fast during the century), La Fontaine
Fables or Fairy Tales illustrations, historical or moral
stories, and (growing through the period) different games,
puzzles etc.
Some leaves
from this factory can be found in museums or libraries,
like Paul Getty's.
Quite
surprizingly, all those companies seem not to have produced
fans (except some cut papers for dolls). Maybe they were
connected with some printing (see our Epinal-Tonkin
fan) , but that remains uncertain. (Please help if you
know more !).
For more information
about the Images d'Epinal etc, we suggest you go to http://fr.encyclopedia.yahoo.com/articles/ma/ma_1026_p0.html
http://www.ac-rouen.fr/ecoles/saint-ouen/vosgesiste%202/epinal/imagerie_d'epinal.htm
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