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Le gâteau des rois: - Eh bien ! et ma part ! - Ma foi! nous vous avons oublié.... ça sera pour l'anné prochaine!.....

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Year:
1848
Contributor:
Vernier, Charles, 1831-1887 (lithographer)
Subject:
France > Foreign relations > 1848-1870
Napoleon III > 1808-1873 > Emperor of the French
Art > Prints
Colonialism > Military Campaigns
Colonialism > Representation of Colonized Groups
Government and Politics > Political & governmental figures
Art > Caricatures and Satires
Government and Politics > International Relations
1848-1852 (The Second Republic)
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1 lithograph

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Abstract:
Louis Napoleon is pulling a chair towards a table at which several monarchs are sitting. They smile at Louis Napoleon as they are preparing to cut up a king's cake. On the cake is a sign "Gâteau des rois," and the inscription "Liste Civile" with two other illegible words.

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"Le gâteau des rois: - Eh bien ! et ma part ! - Ma foi! nous vous avons oublié.... ça sera pour l'anné prochaine!..... " (1848). Paris: Capital of the 19th Century. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:86120/

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