The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . l lashing the horses intoa mad gallop toward a bottomless abyss. General Soult, theMinister of War, is flourishing and snapping a military flag,in place of a whip. At the back of the chariot a Jesuit hassucceeded in securing foothold upon the baggage, and isadding his voice to hasten the forward march, all symbolic ofthe violent momentum of the reactionary movement. It was not likely that the part which Louis Philippe playedin the revolution of 1789, his share in the republican victoriesof Jemappes and of Valmy, would be forgotten by those
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . l lashing the horses intoa mad gallop toward a bottomless abyss. General Soult, theMinister of War, is flourishing and snapping a military flag,in place of a whip. At the back of the chariot a Jesuit hassucceeded in securing foothold upon the baggage, and isadding his voice to hasten the forward march, all symbolic ofthe violent momentum of the reactionary movement. It was not likely that the part which Louis Philippe playedin the revolution of 1789, his share in the republican victoriesof Jemappes and of Valmy, would be forgotten by those whosaw in him only a pseudo-republican, a citizen king inname only, and who seized eagerly upon the opportunity ofmocking at his youthful espousal of republicanism. Thenames of these battles recur again and again in the caricatureof the period, in the legends, in maps conspicuously hung uponthe walls of the background. An anonymous cut representsthe public gazing eagerly into a magic lantern, the old Poire officiating as showman: You have before you. g ^ M ffi H % H •K> <1 <J -, M pi <s P tq 78 CENTURY IN CARICATURE the conqueror of Jemappes and of Valmy. You see him sur-rounded by his nobles, his generals, and his family, all readyto die in his defense. See how the jolly rascals fight. Theyare not the ones to be driven in disgrace from their , no ! Of all the cartoons touching upon Louis Philippesinsincerity, probably the most famous is that of Daumier com-memorating the death of Lafayette. The persistent popu-larity of this veteran statesman had steadily become moreand more embarrassing to a government whose reactionarydoctrines he repudiated, and whose political corruption hedespised. Enfonce Lafayette/ . . Attrape, monvieux! is the legend inscribed beneath what is unquestion-ably one of the most extraordinary of all the caricatures ofHonore Daumier. It represents Louis Philippe watching thefuneral cortege of Lafayette, his hands raised to his face in
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