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| Title | Ah mon dieu papa comme tu es rempli de poux |
| Creator | [Lacroix] |
| Place of Publication | [France -- Paris] |
| Date | [1815] |
| Caption Text | Caption on image:
Ah mon dieu papa comme tu es rempli de poux (Oh my God, papa, you are covered with lice)
mon Fils, ce sont des Fédérés (my son, those are Fédérés)
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| Historical Notes | The fédérés were delegates to a grand celebration on Bastille Day 1790, honoring the fall of the Bastille the previous year. By the time of this cartoon, the term was used more generally to refer to the more common or uncouth revolutionaries of Paris. In the drawing, Napoleon's son (the King of Rome) remarks that Napoleon is covered with lice. Napoleon replies that those are fédérés. The metaphor was the attempt of the caricaturist to undercut Napoleon's popular support by showing that he secretly despised the revolutionaries.
Reference source: Clerc #92.
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| Publishing Notes | Dépot légal July 26, 1815. Also found in the DeVinck collection (#9535) at the Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris).
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Political cartoons
History--Caricatures & cartoons
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832
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| Geographic Coverage | France |
| Digital Collection | Napoleonic Period Collection
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| Digital ID Number | NAP44 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Napoleon Collection |
| UW Reference Number | F11 |
| Object Type | Print |
| Physical Description | Etching, hand colored ; plate mark 23 x 18 cm. on sheet 30 x 23 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original drawing in RGB at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2006. |
