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French caricaturist famous during the Belle Époque. Goursat moved to Paris in March 1900, at the time of the opening of the Universal Exposition. In June that year he self-published an album, Le Turf, with caricatures of many prominent Parisian socialites (Marquess Boni de Castellane, Prince Trubetskoy, Count Clermont-Tonnerre, Baron Alphonse and Gustave de Rothschild, Polaire). The success of this album made him famous overnight. In October of the same year, he published another album, Paris-Trouville, with the same success. Nine others followed until 1913. In 1909, he exhibited with the painter Auguste Roubille, first in Paris, then in Monte Carlo and London, a diorama, composed of hundreds of wooden figurines of Parisian celebrities. In 1919, he published Le Grand Monde à l'envers (High Society upside down). Around 1923, he published three almums under the general title of Le Nouveau Monde (The New World). In 1923, he was made an officer of the Légion d'honneur. After a heart attack in 1933, he died in Paris on 26 November 1934. Link to Wikipedia biography