Vous avez la parole, expliquez-vous, vous êtes libre!, 1835. Play on words - 'parole' can also mean 'word' in French, so the judge is saying: 'You have parole/you may speak, explain yourself, you are free [to]!'. From periodical: La Caricature, 14 May 1835, no. 236, plate 490.

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