Caricature Illustration depicting Emile Combes (1835 - 1921), French statesman and freemason. He studied for the priesthood, but abandoned the idea before ordination. His anti-clericalism would later lead him into becoming a Freemason. Combes was devoted to an anti-clerical agenda, partly in response to the Dreyfus 'Le Rire' magazine 1902.

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