Georges Pilotelle
French, 1845-1918
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Georges Raoul Eugène Pilotelle was a Paris Commune caricaturist known by his pseudonym Pilotell.
His father was a deputy mayor and deputy judge at the Court of First Instance.
He contributed to several Republican opposition newspapers, including Paris-Caprice, Le Bouffon, Le Charivari, Le Hanneton and La Rue by Jules Vallès. On February 8, 1871, he launched the twice-weekly newspaper La Caricature politique.
Pilotell was appointed Special Commissar of the Commune, and went into exile in London. Sentenced to death in absentia in 1874, he died there on June 29, 1918.