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Rochefort's Whipping Boys, or how to make two hundred thousand francs, from the front page of the illustrated supplement of 'Le Petit Journal', 16th December 1893

French School, (19th century); French. Medium: colour lithograph. Date: 1893. Les Tetes de Turc de Rochefort ou la maniere de se faire deux cent mille francs de rente; Henri Rochefort (1830-1913) was a radical French journalist and politician; In the 1890s his attacks on the government and against politicians such as Constans, C. Perier, J. Ferry, Mac-Mahon, Thiers, and Carnot became increasingly virulent; Le Prince des polemistes; Provenance: Private Collection / Giraudon. Photographic Rights The Bridgeman Art Library.