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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine. Volume 9 No.2 July 2012
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n one of my frequent genealogical
Iwanderings I sometimes come across the
unusual and often interesting pictures and
stories. Just such a find came as I awaited late
entries for this journal. I found references to
drawings by André Gill, (1840-1885), French
writer, illustrator, caricaturist and songwriter,
born Louise-Alexandre Gosset de Guines.

This hand-coloured engraving depicting
Dickens crossing the English Channel with his
books, appeared in the newspaper “L’Eclipse!
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Of 14 June 1868.

So, you see, both Mr.Pickwick AND the ‘Boss’
went to France!

Joe,The Fat Boy (Editor).

Her Majesty receives our President Samuel Pickwick, Esq. on
the occasion of the Dickens Reception in Buckingham Palace