Ladies and gentlemen, the three gentlemen you see here are not made of flesh and blood as you might be tempted to believe. They were made from scratch with cardboard, paint, wicker, cloth, canvas and leather, assembled according to the principles that, from all eternity, have served the Creator and the tailors and shoemakers who are his collaborators on this earth.
The demiurge to whom we owe this new edition by MM. Victor Boucher, Rip and Maurice Rostand, is Victor Goursat.

Faced with the precariousness of our earthly envelope, Victor Goursat thought, after the Egyptians, that it was appropriate to immortalize it by a faithful reproduction. Attempts of this order have already been made using bronze, marble, stone, painted canvas or photography. You know the poor results. The linear arts cannot claim to imprison life in their two-dimensional world. As for the plastic arts, if they have a third dimension, it is in vain that they try to adapt the immobility of matter to the movement by which, precisely, every vital principle is translated.

Victor Goursat has therefore circumvented these difficulties by giving his creatures a supple frame, a colored face, and by dressing them no longer in bronze frock coats and granite trousers, but in good Elbeuf cloth and English chevioté, even in drapella or organdy. For he creates women as well as men. Up to now, he has brought into the world, in addition to the three Parisians mentioned above, Mmes Vera Sergine, Spinelly, Parisys; MM. Letellier, Sem, Lucien Guitry, Paul Poiret, etc...

J. de C.