Two drunken editors of the Encyclopédie (Encylopedia) at the salon of Baron d'Holbach, 18th century. One sits at a table with tobacco pipe and bottles of wine, while another lies drunk on the floor. Denis Diderot, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Claude Bourgelat, Voltaire, Rousseau, Les Encyclopedistes. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Pegard, within a decorative cartouche by Anne Modave, from Augustin Challamel's Autrefois ou Le Bon Vieux Temps, Types de 18e Siecle, Challamel et Cie, 1842.

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