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Image Not Available for This is the only really appropriate costume for this person who inappropriately received the title of Burgrave
This is the only really appropriate costume for this person who inappropriately received the title of Burgrave
Image Not Available for This is the only really appropriate costume for this person who inappropriately received the title of Burgrave

This is the only really appropriate costume for this person who inappropriately received the title of Burgrave

PortfolioPlate 118 from the series "Actualités"
Date1850
MediumCrayon lithograph
DimensionsSheet: 260 x 206 mm. (10 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.)
Credit LinePurchase Fund
Object number1961.110
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Last Updated1/11/24
Image Not Available for Please no exaggerations in this article which goes to all the newspapers. Write only that our pupil Greluchot has received fourteen prizes and that there is no doubt that the Institute Bilboquet is the finest in all of Paris!
Please no exaggerations in this article which goes to all the newspapers. Write only that our pupil Greluchot has received fourteen prizes and that there is no doubt that the Institute Bilboquet is the finest in all of Paris!
1846
Image Not Available for Chasseloup-Laubat. On his head he is wearing the famous laurel-wreath presented to him by the Burgraves for his campaign against French journalists.
Chasseloup-Laubat. On his head he is wearing the famous laurel-wreath presented to him by the Burgraves for his campaign against French journalists.
1850
Image Not Available for The Burgraves go to war.
The Burgraves go to war.
1851
Image Not Available for Initiation of a freemason. We know from reliable sources that you are only among us to reveal our secrets to outsiders.... your guiltful projects will be thwarted...... I have received order to drive this dagger into your chest!
Initiation of a freemason. We know from reliable sources that you are only among us to reveal our secrets to outsiders.... your guiltful projects will be thwarted...... I have received order to drive this dagger into your chest!
1846
Image Not Available for The landlord really is a real robber... It seems he chooses to make roof repairs only during sunny weather.
The landlord really is a real robber... It seems he chooses to make roof repairs only during sunny weather.
1847
Image Not Available for Do I really need to be eloquent in front of such a highly placed judge, who is fully aware of form and depth, and who, based upon his position, will always be at the frontline of humanity.
Do I really need to be eloquent in front of such a highly placed judge, who is fully aware of form and depth, and who, based upon his position, will always be at the frontline of humanity.
1843
Image Not Available for A fixed-price dinner. Here's a restaurant owner who does things the big way..... for our 32 sous, he provided us with a stomach ache that will cost twenty francs per person to cure!
A fixed-price dinner. Here's a restaurant owner who does things the big way..... for our 32 sous, he provided us with a stomach ache that will cost twenty francs per person to cure!
1844
Image Not Available for Conscript replacement agency. -There's merchandise an' merchandise! You wan' a common replacement, that'll cost yer only 800 F., but I warn yer, they're all swindlers, crooks who don't stay with their regiment, who skedaddle at the first opportunity and who 'ave ter be retrieved.... Would yer like ter make it 1'500 F., take that speciment, it ain't handsome but it's of good composition and it's got papers... As many as yer like an' it don't flinch from six years' service. - Bertrand (aside): You c'n count on it, civilian!"
Conscript replacement agency. -There's merchandise an' merchandise! You wan' a common replacement, that'll cost yer only 800 F., but I warn yer, they're all swindlers, crooks who don't stay with their regiment, who skedaddle at the first opportunity and who 'ave ter be retrieved.... Would yer like ter make it 1'500 F., take that speciment, it ain't handsome but it's of good composition and it's got papers... As many as yer like an' it don't flinch from six years' service. - Bertrand (aside): You c'n count on it, civilian!"
1837
Image Not Available for The entrance into life. At last!.... there is one who really looks like me!
The entrance into life. At last!.... there is one who really looks like me!
1843
Image Not Available for No matter what one says, old things are always beautiful.... - Yes, but only in marble, my dear.
No matter what one says, old things are always beautiful.... - Yes, but only in marble, my dear.
1850
Image Not Available for Taking the oath of a new member of the Philanthropic Society of the 10th of December. I swear to beat up all those Parisians who refuse to shout along with me: Long live the Emperor!
Taking the oath of a new member of the Philanthropic Society of the 10th of December. I swear to beat up all those Parisians who refuse to shout along with me: Long live the Emperor!
1850
Image Not Available for Tell me, my friend, all the people who walk in this area turn around... could it be that this is the politician's district?
Tell me, my friend, all the people who walk in this area turn around... could it be that this is the politician's district?
1850