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Albert Robida

Albert Robida (14 May 1848 – 11 October 1926) was a French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist. He edited and published La Caricature magazine for 12 years. Through the 1880s, he wrote an acclaimed works of early science fiction, especially La Guerre au vingtième siècle(1887) and Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique (1890).