Robert Macaire's boarding school. - Professor, here's my system of education. Have an undemanding curriculum so that study lasts as long as possible, give holidays, receive presents at every possible anniversary, and as for the prices, one should be perfectly impartial... - Quite right! They should only be given to the best pupils. - What! Upset the parents! Oh no! Not at all! Prizes shall be given to everybody. To every man his due!

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Image Not Available for Robert Macaire's boarding school. - Professor, here's my system of education. Have an undemanding curriculum so that study lasts as long as possible, give holidays, receive presents at every possible anniversary, and as for the prices, one should be perfectly impartial... - Quite right! They should only be given to the best pupils. - What! Upset the parents! Oh no! Not at all! Prizes shall be given to everybody. To every man his due!
Robert Macaire's boarding school. - Professor, here's my system of education. Have an undemanding curriculum so that study lasts as long as possible, give holidays, receive presents at every possible anniversary, and as for the prices, one should be perfectly impartial... - Quite right! They should only be given to the best pupils. - What! Upset the parents! Oh no! Not at all! Prizes shall be given to everybody. To every man his due!
Image Not Available for Robert Macaire's boarding school. - Professor, here's my system of education. Have an undemanding curriculum so that study lasts as long as possible, give holidays, receive presents at every possible anniversary, and as for the prices, one should be perfectly impartial... - Quite right! They should only be given to the best pupils. - What! Upset the parents! Oh no! Not at all! Prizes shall be given to everybody. To every man his due!

Robert Macaire's boarding school. - Professor, here's my system of education. Have an undemanding curriculum so that study lasts as long as possible, give holidays, receive presents at every possible anniversary, and as for the prices, one should be perfectly impartial... - Quite right! They should only be given to the best pupils. - What! Upset the parents! Oh no! Not at all! Prizes shall be given to everybody. To every man his due!

PortfolioPlate 42 from the series "Caricaturana"
Date1837
MediumCrayon lithograph with hand coloring
DimensionsSheet: 246 × 224 mm. (9 11/16 × 8 13/16 in.)
Credit LineGiven in Memory of Joseph Katz by his Children
Object number1963.109.24
NOT ON VIEW
Last Updated1/11/24
Image Not Available for Education of Achilles. / Stern Chiron spanks pupils each morning / Creates deep feeling scorning / Alas... teachers break our young heads every day / While being themsellves full of fault and dismay! / (The Iliad, philosophical translation by Mr. Patin)
Education of Achilles. / Stern Chiron spanks pupils each morning / Creates deep feeling scorning / Alas... teachers break our young heads every day / While being themsellves full of fault and dismay! / (The Iliad, philosophical translation by Mr. Patin)
1842
Image Not Available for Various news. "The Rue de la Lune has been illuminated with gas light." Correction: In our last edition instead of "The mayor has given birth to twins" it should read: "He has returned into town." We are being informed from Dijon: "The latest frost has completely destroyed the mustard seeds; this will most likely result in considerable price increases for Moutarde de Dijon." - We inform our readers of a new kind of activity: cunning swindlers are getting information about the addresses of regular patrons of coffee houses. While the clients are reading the newspapers, the thieves will pillage to their home.
Various news. "The Rue de la Lune has been illuminated with gas light." Correction: In our last edition instead of "The mayor has given birth to twins" it should read: "He has returned into town." We are being informed from Dijon: "The latest frost has completely destroyed the mustard seeds; this will most likely result in considerable price increases for Moutarde de Dijon." - We inform our readers of a new kind of activity: cunning swindlers are getting information about the addresses of regular patrons of coffee houses. While the clients are reading the newspapers, the thieves will pillage to their home.
1842
Image Not Available for Robert Macaire, Professor of Industry. Here's an example. Buy a new process, it doesn't matter which, or whether it's good or bad, buy it for 600F, 500F, 25F, for as little as possible. Create 500'000F worth of shares, as many as possible. Make out monster advertisements, monster posters, monster promises. Make the capital, pocket it, put the key under the door, file your bankruptcy papers, that's to say the company's papers... that's the end of that little game. You then go on to another.
Robert Macaire, Professor of Industry. Here's an example. Buy a new process, it doesn't matter which, or whether it's good or bad, buy it for 600F, 500F, 25F, for as little as possible. Create 500'000F worth of shares, as many as possible. Make out monster advertisements, monster posters, monster promises. Make the capital, pocket it, put the key under the door, file your bankruptcy papers, that's to say the company's papers... that's the end of that little game. You then go on to another.
1837
Image Not Available for The Four Mr. Prices
The Four Mr. Prices
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Image Not Available for Doctor Robert Macaire's clinic. - There you are gentlemen, the surgery I performed was a full success, while everybody considered it to be impossible. - But doctor, the patient is dead! - So what... ..she would have died sooner or later anyway.
Doctor Robert Macaire's clinic. - There you are gentlemen, the surgery I performed was a full success, while everybody considered it to be impossible. - But doctor, the patient is dead! - So what... ..she would have died sooner or later anyway.
1837
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 Congratulations on Every Section of Fence Ever Pulled or Cut Down, on Every Minute in Police Custody, on Every Day in Prison. (Worsted Weight Yarn)
Congratulations on Every Section of Fence Ever Pulled or Cut Down, on Every Minute in Police Custody, on Every Day in Prison. (Worsted Weight Yarn)
Ellen Lesperance
2019
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 The pupils of the Institute Pascareau are trying their new school uniform which makes them look a little like the great Napoleon and a lot like little newspaper boys.
The pupils of the Institute Pascareau are trying their new school uniform which makes them look a little like the great Napoleon and a lot like little newspaper boys.
1846
Image Not Available for Honor to the Arts: Pupils of a Grand Master
Honor to the Arts: Pupils of a Grand Master
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Image Not Available for three the long way (every shot, every failure, still leading with love)
three the long way (every shot, every failure, still leading with love)
2022
Image Not Available for A presumptuous heir. First philosophy lesson given by the nurse Jabutot to her student; while she devotes herself to dancing, she gives him a glimpse of the difficulties of a social position, and teaches him that during the course of life, man remains occasionally in suspense!
A presumptuous heir. First philosophy lesson given by the nurse Jabutot to her student; while she devotes herself to dancing, she gives him a glimpse of the difficulties of a social position, and teaches him that during the course of life, man remains occasionally in suspense!
1843