The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . 82 CENTURY IN CARICATURE to the monsters below—monsters more uncouth and fantasticthan even Mr. H. G. Wellss fertile brain conceived in his War of the Worlds, or First Men in the Moon. Dau-mier in his turn had to have his fling at the ministerial benchesof the government of July—the prostituted Chamber of1834. At the present day, when the very names of themen whom he attacked are half forgotten, his famous car-toon, Le Ventre Legislatif, is still interesting; yet it isimpossible to realize the impression it must have made in thedays when ev
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . 82 CENTURY IN CARICATURE to the monsters below—monsters more uncouth and fantasticthan even Mr. H. G. Wellss fertile brain conceived in his War of the Worlds, or First Men in the Moon. Dau-mier in his turn had to have his fling at the ministerial benchesof the government of July—the prostituted Chamber of1834. At the present day, when the very names of themen whom he attacked are half forgotten, his famous car-toon, Le Ventre Legislatif, is still interesting; yet it isimpossible to realize the impression it must have made in thedays when every one of those ventrigoulus, those rotund,somnolent, inanely smiling old men, with the word bour-geoisie plainly written all over them, were familiar figuresin the political world, and Daumiers presentment of them,one and all, a masterly indictment of complacent between Daumier and Grandville, the two leading lightsof La Caricature, there is little question that the former wasthe greater. Balzac, who was at one time one of the ed
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