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L' Américain à Paris

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Year:
1887
Contributor:
Millaud, Albert, 1844-1892 (editor)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Americans > France > Attitudes
Art > Caricatures and Satires
1871-1940 (The Third Republic)
Local ID:
1-SIZE DC715. M55 1887
Extent:
1 engraving

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Abstract:
An American, whose face and beard suspiciously look like Abraham Lincoln, tries to buy something. A valet, on the left, seems to explain that whatever the American wants to buy is not for sale.
Notes:
Millaud's note on the American abroad is fairly typical of the representation of Americans in France around the 1880s. He depicts the women as charming and modest, and the men as serious and intelligent. According to Millaud, Americans are only interested by money and work. He concedes, though, that Americans are fast learners and that, in contact with the Old Continent's refined manners, they will learn fast and soon be far superior to Europeans.

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"L' Américain à Paris" (1887). Paris: Capital of the 19th Century. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:1102187/

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