The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . HER BAPTISM OF Tewiielin Punch. Gambetta, Favre, and Jules Ferry among its leading mem-bers, shows her standing erect by the side of a cannon, theimperial insignia trampled beneath her feet, waving aloft theflag of the Republic, and shouting from the Marseillaise : Aux armes, citoyens,Formez vos bataillons! 208 CENTURY IN CARICATURE The announcement that the German royal headquarterswas to be removed to Versailles, and that the palace of LouisXIV. was to shelter the Prussian King surrounded by hisconquering armies, drew from Tenniel
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . HER BAPTISM OF Tewiielin Punch. Gambetta, Favre, and Jules Ferry among its leading mem-bers, shows her standing erect by the side of a cannon, theimperial insignia trampled beneath her feet, waving aloft theflag of the Republic, and shouting from the Marseillaise : Aux armes, citoyens,Formez vos bataillons! 208 CENTURY IN CARICATURE The announcement that the German royal headquarterswas to be removed to Versailles, and that the palace of LouisXIV. was to shelter the Prussian King surrounded by hisconquering armies, drew from Tenniel the cartoon in whichhe showed the German monarch seated at his table in thepalace studying the map of Paris, while in the background arethe ghosts of Louis XIV. and the great Napoleon. The. ANDRE GILL. ghost of the Grand Monarque is asking sadly: Is this theend of all the glories ? The sufferings of Paris duringthe siege are summed up in a cartoon entitled GermanysAlly, in which the figure of Famine is laying its cold, gaunthand on the head of the unhappy woman typifying thestricken city. The beginning of the bombardment was com-memorated in a cartoon entitled Her Baptism of Fire,showing the grim and bloody results of the falling of the CENTURY IN CARICATURE 209
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