Caran d’Ache was the pseudonym of the 19th century French satirist and political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré (November 6 1858 – February 26 1909). Caran d’Ache comes from the Russian word karandash (карандаш) meaning pencil (of Turkic origin; karadash meaning black stone — used for writing on a karatash meaning black slate).
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