The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . apoleon the Little suggested another pictorial effort ofVernier. A veteran of the Grand Army is watching thecoach of the state passing by, Napoleon holding the reins. What! That my Emperor! exclaims the veteran, shad-ing his eyes. Those rascally Englishmen, how they havechanged my vision! The methods by which Louis Napo-leon obtained his election first as President for ten years, andsecondly as Emperor of the French, were satirized in Chari-vari by Daumier in a cartoon called Les Aveugles (TheBlind). In the center of this cartoon is a huge
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . apoleon the Little suggested another pictorial effort ofVernier. A veteran of the Grand Army is watching thecoach of the state passing by, Napoleon holding the reins. What! That my Emperor! exclaims the veteran, shad-ing his eyes. Those rascally Englishmen, how they havechanged my vision! The methods by which Louis Napo-leon obtained his election first as President for ten years, andsecondly as Emperor of the French, were satirized in Chari-vari by Daumier in a cartoon called Les Aveugles (TheBlind). In the center of this cartoon is a huge ballot jar 122 CENTURY IN CARICATURE Around this the sightless marked Universal Suffrage,voters are laboriously groping. Many were the designs by which Daumier in Charivarisatirized EouisNapoleons flirtation with the French one of them the Prince, bearing a remote resemblance inmanner and in dress to Robert Macaire, is offering the ladyhis arm. Belle dame he is saying, will you accept myescort? To which she replies coldly: Monsieur, your. NAPOLEON LE PETIT. By Vernier. passion is entirely too sudden. I can place no great faithin it. Pictorial expressions of opinion regarding the greatcrime of 185 1, which once more replaced a republic with anempire, must be sought for outside of France. But therewas one subject at this time upon which even the strictest ofedicts could not enforce silence, and that was the subject ofNapoleons marriage to Eugenie. The Emperors Spanish CENTURY IN CARICATURE 123 bride was never popular, not even during the first years of theSecond Empire, before she began to meddle with affairs ofstate; and in many incisive ways the Parisians heaped ridiculeupon her. A curious little pamphlet, with text and illustra-tions, about the new Empress was sold in Paris at the time ofthe marriage. This pamphlet was entirely complimentaryand harmless. The biting humor of it was on the title-page,which the vendors went about crying in the streets: The
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