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Français : La Violette Chiffonnier (

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Artist

English: Saint-Phal

Title

Français : La Violette Chiffonnier

Description

English:

This drawing refers to the revolutionary origins of Napoleon's power. Napoleon, in an elegant white-and-gold costume, prods a pile of garbage with his sword underneath an effigy of himself. He doesn't notice, intent on finding his crown. A lamplighter in rags is kneeling nearby, and all the revolutionary symbols and archetypes are nearby. The drawing symbolizes the revolutionary origins of his rise to power.

Reference source: Clerc #83.

Geographic coverage: France
Subjects (LCSH): Political cartoons; History--Caricatures & cartoons; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821

Date

1815

Medium

English: Etching, hand colored ; plate mark 23 x 34 cm. on sheet 26 x 37 cm.

Collection

University of Washington

	Native name	University of Washington
	Location	Seattle, Washington, United States of America
	Coordinates	47° 39′ 15″ N, 122° 18′ 29″ W
	Established	1861
	Website	www.washington.edu
	Authority file	: Q219563 VIAF: 265500071 ISNI: 0000000122986657 ULAN: 500308857 LCCN: n79054596 NLA: 35573202 WorldCat

Current location

University of Washington: Special Collections

Accession number

125

Place of creation

Paris

Inscriptions

Caption on image:

La Violette Chiffonnier

Cherchant sa couronne dans les ordures des faubourgs de Paris
A Paris chez tous les Marchands des Nouveautés
Déposé au Bureau des Estampes

Dialogue and signage:
[Man putting up poster] Affichons le!
[Posters] Deux CHAMBRES à louer!
on demande des persones honnête
Palais Royal
Dans les Appartemens de S.A.S. le Duc d’Orléans
pendant son Absence
Représentation du Tartuffe
Elisée Bourbon
Représentation du Roi surposé

[Man lighting lamp] Un mot Sire et les Eclaireurs de 93 mettront les Royalistes à la lanterne
[The coal-carrier] J’sommes vos Mousquetaires noirs ! si l’ennemi tombe sous nos pattes j’réponds qui n’sera pas blanc !
[Napoleon] Mes Enfans aider le père la Violette à ravoir sa courinne qui est souillée
[Papers in Napoleon’s basket] Senatus Consulte, Décret, Décret Imp’al, Senatus Consulte
[Box over skeleton’s shoulder] Voici vos Gardes du Corps si besoin était!!!!...
[Patch on skeleton’s shoulder] Brevete par S.M.
[Scroll in skeleton’s coat] Apertis sement
[Man in revolutionary bonnet] Les M(??) d’allumettes souffrent mais ne se plaignent pas

[First of legion of revolutionary soldiers] Sire il y a encore du remède notre seule présence fera tourner le dos a l’ennemi

[The lavendar rag-picker/scavenger

Searching for his crown in the garbage cans of the working-class suburbs of Paris
In Paris at all the merchants of novelty items
Registed at the Bureau of Engravings

Dialogue and signage:
[Man putting up poster] Display it!
[Posters] Two rooms/chambers to rent!
We ask for honest people
Royal Palace
In the apartments of the Duke of Orleans
during his absence
Representation of Tartuffe [character in Molière play]
Bourbon palace
representation of the king superimposed

[Man lighting lamp] One word, Sire, and the lamplighters will string up the Royalists on the lantern
[The coal-carrier] I’m [one of] your black musketeers ; if the enemy falls under our feet we won't leave him white
[Napoleon] My children, help le père la Violette [his nickname during the hundred days] to get back his crown which is tarnished
[Papers in Napoleon’s basket] Senatorial consultation, decree, imperial decree, senatorial consultation
[Box over skeleton’s shoulder] Here are your bodyguards if need be
[Patch on skeleton’s shoulder] Patented by S.M.
[Scroll in skeleton’s coat] Apertis sement
[Man in revolutionary bonnet] Les M(??) d’allumettes souffrent mais ne se plaignent pas (The ?? of matches suffer but don’t complain)

[First of legion of revolutionary soldiers] Sir, there is still some remedy, our sole presence will make the enemy turn his back]

Source/Photographer

English: Napoleonic Period Collection

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Announced in the Gazette de France on March 21, 1815; printed in June; dépôt légal September 5, 1815. Also found in the De Vinck collection (#9403) at the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris) and in the Collection de l'histoire de France, Qb1, May 14, 1815.<b

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NAP79

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F47

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