XXXXXOn the occasion of the centenary of  " La Semaine de Suzette " The Paris  Museum  celebrates with a new exhibition of the magazine and its dolls,  particularly the legendary Bécassine as well as the little Bleuette and her wardrobe. Almost a thousand objects are presented, coming from both the collection of the Museum and from private collections.

XXXXX Also copies of La Semaine de Suzette, original albums of Bécassine, the rare and old dolls, the unusual objects ....an absolutely fabulous universe! !

X XXXXX The magazine " La Semaine de Suzette " was created in 1905 by Henri Gautier, at the time of the separation of the Church and the State. The editor set the tone before its launch t :

XXXX" Suzette   ", the typical reader,  was between 10 to 15 years of age, but was sometimes younger or  older... There were " Suzettes " who continued their dear subscription after their marriage! Suzette often attended private school in the big cities but also went to public school in smaller towns. She was mostly French, lived sometimes in colonies, or if she was foreign, wished to perfect her understanding of the French language by reading the Semaine de Suzette and often found one or several correspondents by the way of the column " La Petite Poste ". She was usually of the Catholic bourgeois middle class.

XXXXX Many of the Suzettes, today grown old, preserve their magazines and especially their Bleuettes, their Bécassines or their Bambinos about which they speak with emotion.

XXXXX The comic strip was written at the last minute to complete the last page of the first issue. Bécassine returned to the magazine a little later, and in a very unpredictable way. This naive and kind Breton girl, always wishing to be helpful, approaching everything in what was to her a very logical way, was born under Jacqueline Rivière's pen and Joseph Porphyre Pinchon's delicious pencil. Carried on from 1913 by Maurice Languereau, nephew of Mister Gautier and future partner, known under the pen name of Caumery, she continued to be drawn by J.P. Pinchon, except for two years in 1915 and 1916 when J.P. Pinchon was mobilized in the Dardanelles, she was drawn by the well known draftsman Zier.

XXXXX In the avant-garde of the current events of her time, Bécassine was alternately an aviator, schoolteacher, mountain climber, driver of a motorcar, and made long journeys to distant places.  In 1922, Bécassine became the nurse of the famous Loulotte, in fact the little baby of Maurice Languereau who was the inspiration for many stories.

XXXXX In 1913, there began a series of 27 albums drawn by Pinchon and written by Caumery, first being "   The childhood of Bécassine   ". Today Edition Hachette-Livre/Gautier-Languereau, the publishing house, continues reprints inspired by the original albums, adapting the texts to our time which is no longer that of Bécassine.

XXXXX As the first feminine heroine of a comic strip, Bécassine became partially a timeless myth integral to our French collective memory. She is presented in the form of dolls wearing the incomparable outfit, in cloth dolls made by Reine Dégrais, then in a multitude of objects: umbrellas, lamps, mechanical toys, ashtrays, key rings, salt and pepper shakers, dishes and kitchen ware, and figurines to name a few. ....

XXXXX he survived very well after the disappearance of La Semaine de Suzette in 1960.

XXXXX Benjamine, small sister of Bleuette,  born in 1926 was sold for only a short time.