Jules Vallès
Print
1870-1871 (printed)
1870-1871 (printed)
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Satirical print showing Jules Vallès wearing red trousers, rants and rages, while members of the Government of National Defence (Thiers, Garnier-Pagès, Trochu, Simon, Favre and Picard) cavort in the background. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.
Object details
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| Title | Jules Vallès (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Hand-coloured lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | 'Jules Vallès'. Satirical illustration by Paul Roga showing Jules Vallès wearing red trousers, rants and rages, while members of the Government of National Defence cavort in the background. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871. |
| Physical description | Satirical print showing Jules Vallès wearing red trousers, rants and rages, while members of the Government of National Defence (Thiers, Garnier-Pagès, Trochu, Simon, Favre and Picard) cavort in the background. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc. |
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| Gallery label | Paul Roga
Jules Vallès novelist and chief reporter of Le Cri du Peuple rants and rages in the foreground while members of the Government of National Defence cavort in the background. Early in January Vallès drew up a poster expressing his dissatisfaction with the Government, describing it as a mere continuance of the Empire.
Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.1079-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971) |
| Historical context | In this caricature, Jules Vallès (1832-85), novelist and chief reporter of Le Cri du Peuple, rants and rages in the foreground while members of the Government of National Defence (Thiers, Garnier-Pagès, Trochu, Simon, Favre and Picard) cavort in the background. Early in January 1871, Vallès drew up a poster expressing his dissatisfaction with the Government, describing it as a mere continuance of the Empire. 'Make way for the people! Make way for the Commune!' he cried. He was elected a member of the Commune and, although he safely escaped across the frontier at the end of the war, his death was reported three times. |
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| Accession number | E.1079-1962 |
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| Record created | February 4, 2009 |
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