Achille Belloguet was a French draughtsman, lithographer and painter, best known for his illustrations, caricatures and cartoons.
Born on May 21, 1833 in the former 1st arrondissement of Paris, Victor-Achille Belloguet was the son of Jeanne Belloguet, née Bibal, and Jean-Baptiste Belloguet.
On August 17, 1853, he married Louise-Marie Brard. He is listed as a “dessinateur lithographe” and lives at no. 8 rue Garancière. Their sons, Paul (1854-1917) and Léon (1859-19..), were also well-known draftsmen.
During the Second Empire and in the 1870s, Achille Belloguet produced numerous drawings and lithographs, which he signed “A. Belloguet”. In particular, he designed numerous posters and flyers for popular novels. As a humorist, he contributed to Le Monde comique, Le Monde pour rire, Le Journal amusant, La Chanson illustrée, La Chronique illustrée, L'Esprit follet, L'Éclipse, Guguss'!!!, Le Grelot, Le Petit Journal pour rire and Le Cri-Cri.
In 1863, he exhibited a drawing at the Salon des refusés. He lived at no. 5 rue du Pont-de-Lodi.
During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and after the fall of the Empire, he published, in October 1870, Pilori-Phrénologie, a series of ferocious charges against the personalities of the fallen regime or reaction. During this period, he lived at no. 13 rue des Fontaines-du-Temple, from where he sent an open letter of support to Bonvalet, the Republican mayor of the 3rd arrondissement.
After the war and the Commune, Achille Belloguet emigrated to Belgium. Between 1872 and 1875, he illustrated La Rénovation, the weekly newspaper of Canon Xavier Mouls, a French priest who had switched from Catholicism to Old Catholicism and was exiled to Belgium.
Achille Belloguet died on May 25, 1884 at his home on boulevard Anspach in Brussels.
