Etching on vélin Canson et Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered. Paper Size: 13.5 x 10.5 inches. Excellent condition. Notes: From the folio, A La gloire à Paris, 1937. Published by L'Imprimerie Daragnès, Paris; printed by Jean Gabriel Daragnès, Paris, July 14, 1937. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), The Glory of Paris. This dedicated album by the Paris municipality was written, illustrated, engraved and printed in the year MCMXXXVII. This album was decorated and printed by J.-G. Daragnes for the City of Paris. This album has been completed to print on Vélins des Manufactures de Canson et Montgolfier et des Papeteries on July 14, 1937, D examples, the first CC of which were reserved for the subscribers of the album. CHAS LABORDE (1886-1941) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to French parents. He studied art in Paris at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts. He was a precocious draughtsman and by the age of fifteen he was already selling his drawings to satirical magazines in Paris. After active service in the First World War, during which he was gassed and discharged in 1917, Laborde toured england where he produced strong satirical images of bourgeois life.