JOC4401048: Cartoon of the politics of the Second Empire (Bonapartiste Regime) directed by Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, dit Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, 1808-1873). “Gill's melon (drawing of the period)”. Following the censorship of one of his drawings, Andre Gill (1840-1885), a French cartoonist, replaced him with that of a melon deprived of one of his slices and opened his mouth to deliver a speech. The cartoon, published in L'Eclipse on 15 August 1868, is in turn censured for “obscenite”. The identity of the person represented is controversial. Illustration by Andre Gill, published in L'Eclipse and reproduced in La Lanterne, August 15, 1868. Engraving in “” Napoleon dernier: Les Lanternes de l'Empire”” (Volume 1, volume 1), reedition of 1880-1881 of 75 issues of the newspaper “” La Lanterne “” published by Henri Rochefort (1831-1913) between 30/05/1868 and 29/10/1869 at the Anti-Clerical Librairie. Private collection. / Bridgeman Images
JOC4401077: Cartoon of the politics of the Second Empire (Bonapartiste Regime) directed by Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, dit Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, 1808-1873). “” Master Leon Gambetta, defensor of Delescluze in the Baudin subscription proceedings””. Louis Charles Delescluzes (1809-1871), founder of the opposition newspaper “” Le Reveil”, had launched the idea of a subscription intended to raise a monument to Depute Baudin, killed on the barricades on 3 December 1851. Trained before the courts by Emperor Napoleon III, he was brilliantly defended by Leon Gambetta (1838-1882), ovationne at the end of the trial, but despite all condemnation. Illustration by Andre Gill, La Lanterne, November 27, 1868. Engraving in “” Napoleon dernier: Les Lanternes de l'Empire”” (Volume 1, volume 2), reedition of 1880-1881 of 75 issues of the newspaper “” La Lanterne “” published by Henri Rochefort (1831-1913) between 30/05/1868 and 29/10/1869 at the Anti-Clerical Librairie. Private collection. / Bridgeman Images
JOC4401109: Cartoon of the politics of the Second Empire (Bonapartiste Regime) directed by Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, dit Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, 1808-1873). “The apostate Emile Ollivier”. Emile Ollivier (1825-1913), Republican, son of the outlawed coup d'état of 2 December, joined the Empire in 1866. He could not avoid the war in 1870 and even declared that he considered it “with a light heart” / Bridgeman Images