LSE4112122: The character of Jérôme Paturot takes himself as Demosthenes, an Athenian speaker and politician whose speeches are placed at the top of Greek eloquence. Cartoon In “” Jérôme Paturot in search of a social position”” by Louis Reybaud, 1843., Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard) (1803-47) / Bridgeman Images