Töpffer, Rodolphe

Töpffer, Rodolphe (rôdôlf' töp'fur) [key], 1799–1846, Swiss novelist, b. Geneva. His humorous tales and novels of Swiss life were often illustrated with his own apposite drawings. Töpffer's travelogues of fanciful voyages through the Alps, Voyages en zigzag (1844), enjoyed a great vogue.

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