The parody and satire of history through comic strips, caricatures and humorous columns
This article analyzes the storyboards of a comic strip (Le rêve de Charlot) as well as cartoons and columns published in La Presse by Albéric Bourgeois between 1905 and 1957. With reference to the theories on parody and satire by Linda Hutcheon, Sophie Duval and Marc Martinez, we shall see that these works present a parodic and sometimes critical re-reading of key events in the founding of North America, such as the discovery of America and the establishment of the colony of New France. In addition, these drawings and columns enable Bourgeois to comment on the role of the historian and the discipline of history, namely through humour, parody and satirical anachronisms and reflections.