Album primo-avrilesque is a monograph by French writer, artist and humourist Alphonse Allais. The slim volume of 26 octavo landscape pages, 18.5 by 12 centimetres, bound with card, was published by Paul Ollendorff in Paris on 1 April 1897, and was sold for one franc. The work is generally known by its French title, which may be translated into English as "April Fool-ish album".
Combat de nègres dans une cave, pendant la nuit [Negroes fighting in a cellar, at night]
Stupeur de jeunes recrues apercevant pour la première fois ton azur, O Méditerranée! [Astonishment of young naval recruits seeing for the first time your blue, O Mediterranean Sea!]
Des souteneurs, encore dans la force de l'âge et le ventre dans l'herbe, boivent de l'absinthe [Pimps, still in the prime of life and stomachs on the grass, drinking absinthe]
Manipulation de l'ocre par des cocus ictériques [Jaundiced cuckolds handling ochre]
Alphonse Allais was a French writer, journalist and humorist. He was also the editor of the Chat Noir, a satirical magazine.
Alphonse Allais
Alphonse Allais, Des souteneurs encore dans la force de l'âge et le ventre dans l'herbe boivent de l'absinthe. Carriage curtain, before 1897.
Marche funèbre composée pour les funérailles d'un grand homme sourd (Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man)
First Communion of Anaemic Young Girls In The Snow (1883)
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![Manipulation de l'ocre par des cocus ictériques [Jaundiced cuckolds handling ochre]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Manipulation_de_l%27ocre_par_des_cocus_ict%C3%A9riques.jpg/640px-Manipulation_de_l%27ocre_par_des_cocus_ict%C3%A9riques.jpg)
