Jacques Faizant contributed more than 30,000 cartoons to Le Figaro before his retirement late last year. After falling ill, he found it hard to draw. Faizant's work caricatured French leaders from Gen. Charles de Gaulle to President Jacques Chirac.
Many of his drawings depicted "Marianne," a woman in a red bonnet who is a symbol for France and its spirit of liberty, equality and brotherhood. One famous sketch, which appeared after de Gaulle's death in 1970, showed Marianne weeping over a fallen oak tree.
January 19, 2006
