Gavarni, the pseudonyme of Sulpice Guil-laume Paul Chevalier, a French caricaturist, born in Paris in 1801, died at Auteuil, Nov. 23, 1866. He was employed by an engineer as draftsman at Tarbes, and borrowing a name from the village of Gavarnie in that region, subscribed it to sketches of the costumes and scenery of the Pyrenees. These brought him into notice, and he began the publication of the designs which made him celebrated. He first represented various types of eccentric life in Paris, and afterward attempted with equal success scenes of domestic life. Some of his series in the latter style were entitled Les enfants ter-riblcs, Les fourberies de femmes, Les maris vengcs, Les nuances de sentiment, etc. Among the books which he illustrated were the Juif errant of Sue and the Diable a Paris of Balzac. His (Eurres choises, with letterpress by Jules Janin, Theophile Gautier, Balzac, and others, were published in 1845 (4 vols.). Two volumes more appeared in 1850, under the name of Perles et parures.

In 1869 was published Manieres de voir et facons de parler: receuil des ecrits de Gavarni, edited by Charles Yriarte; and in 1873 a Catalogue des lithographies de Gavarni, and Gavarni, a biography, by Ed-mond and Jules de Goncourt.