Noël Dorville, born in Mercurey, France in 1874, died in Cosne-sur-Loire in 1938, was a French painter who was known for newspaper cartoons and posters. He made many portraits of contemporary French politicians and writers.^[1] Dorville sketched at the 1899 trial of Alfred Dreyfus.^[2] He attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as a journalist, making intimate drawings of participants such as Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau. He was a frequent contributor to L'Assiette au beurre [fr].