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LE CHARIVARI Click for detailed information about LE CHARIVARI. ABOUT THIS PRINT. The print is only known as a colored lithograph. A reduced and inverted version of this print appeared later, on December 15, 1832 in Le Charivari. Its size now measured only 66 x 62 mm. The new print, while looking initially like the larger print, shows distinct differences in details, easily recognizable when looking at the photograph. It seems obvious that Daumier (or another artist ?) had been asked to redraw this lithograph. We have added this as a second state, previously not recorded by Delteil. The Charivari explained this repetition on page 2 of the same edition as follows: "Les meilleures caricatures politiques qui aient paru depuis la révolution de juillet nous fourniront la matière d’une autre planche, Notre but, en résumant ainsi ce que s’est fait, est, nous l’avons dit, de donner à la collection du Charivari l’importance d’un recueil complet, et nous y parviendrons sans fatiguer ceux de nos abonnés pour qui ces résumés ne sont que la répétition de composition qu’ils connaissent déjà." We have added this new state, which was not recorded by Delteil, as second state. This print together with its counterpart "Monseigneur, s'ils persistent" was published by Aubert and refers to riots on the Place Vendôme in May and June 1831, which were brutally suppressed by the Ministry of the Interior. In May 1831, General Lobau dispersed a Bonapartist manifestation on Place Vendôme by using water hoses from the fire fighters. For this reason he was nicknamed “Prince de tricanule” and “Seringot”. Compared to previous treatment of insurgants. this treatment by using water pumps can be considered quite humane. In reality, the famous Vendôme column is the Austerlitz column. On the Place Vendôme in the center of Paris the Grand Army column had been raised. It is 44 meters high and covered with a bronze bas-relief made from the 1'200 canons taken from the enemy in 1805. LOBAU, Georges Mouton, Conte de (1770-1838) participated in the Napoleonic Wars as a General. He was peered in 1809 and after a short period as prisoner in England he returned to France in 1818. He was a politician and from 1828 to 1833 Deputy and served as General of the National Guard from 1830 on. PERIER, Casimir Pierre (1777-1832) was a banker and Deputy under Napoleon Bonaparte and became Minister of the Interior in 1831 under Louis-Philippe. He died of cholera during the epidemic of 1832 in Paris. Périer' s ministry was in power from March 1831 to May 1832. The motto of his party was the "juste milieu". He successfully prosecuted the owners and editors of republican newspapers, arresting republican leaders for sedition, indicting others for inticing a mob to attack the chamber of peers during the trial of Charles' X ministers. He prevented through his vigilance an insurrection on Bastille Day, July 14, 1831, and also on the anniversary of the July Revolution (July 27 to 30). He sent Soult to Lyon to quell the riots there. His ministry was efficient and was widely accepted, except by the Republicans. |
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