Françoise Pichard Explained

Françoise Pichard (born 2 November 1941[1] in Lion-en-Sullias), also known as Chard and Pscharr, is a French far-right political cartoonist and illustrator of children books.

Biography

Chard has published cartoons in Rivarol since 1967, in Présent since 1982, and in Signal d'Alarme since its foundation in 2006.

On 8 November 1994, she was found guilty and fined the equivalent of approximately €3000 by High Court of France, for complicity in "provoking discrimination, hatred or racial violence" against the black community, for a cartoon published on 4 March of the same year.

On 1 November 2006, she won second place in the Iranian 'International Holocaust Cartoon Competition' with an openly negationist cartoon, in a tie with Carlos Latuff. According to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, her cartoon contains explicit Holocaust denial.[2] On 3 November 2006, she denied having authorised entry of her cartoon in the competition and refused her prize.[3]

Compilations of political drawings

As "Chard"

Notes and references

  1. [Emmanuel Ratier]
  2. Web site: Ahmadinejad, Iran, and Holocaust Manipulation: Methods, Aims, and Reactions . Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs . February 1, 2007 . September 16, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121030105351/http://jcpa.org/article/ahmadinejad-iran-and-holocaust-manipulation-methods-aims-and-reactions/ . October 30, 2012 . dead .
  3. Declaration by Chard published on Rivarol website on 3 November 2006:

    « Une dépêche [...] m’a appris le 2 novembre que [...] "la dessinatrice française Chard, qui publie régulièrement dans l'hebdomadaire d'extrême-droite Rivarol, a obtenu le deuxième prix, doté de l'équivalent de 6 300 euros, ex-aequo avec le Brésilien Carlos Latuff". [...] je n’ai jamais envoyé le moindre dessin à quelque Iranien que ce soit [...] Quant au dessin "primé", que j’ai vu pour la première fois le 3 novembre sur quelques sites Internet, il était destiné à un usage strictement privé… et il date d’une bonne dizaine d’années. J’ajoute que je n’ai aucune intention d’encaisser le montant du prix (en fait, 4 000 dollars selon le site iranien publiant le "palmarès") qui, s’il était un jour versé, irait intégralement au Comité d’entraide aux prisonniers européens (CEPE) s’occupant de Michel Lajoye, à l’exception d’un don au "Refuge du Chat". Chard. Vendredi 3 novembre 2006. »