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.
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]
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.
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]