- Des huitres à vingt-cinq sous la douzaine quelle horreur!.... mais on me donnerait cent sous pour en manger seulement six que je ne me permettrais pas une pareille dépense.
- Des huitres à vingt-cinq sous la douzaine quelle horreur!.... mais on me donnerait cent sous pour en manger seulement six que je ne me permettrais pas une pareille dépense.
Title (alt.):
- Oysters for twenty-five cents a dozen how horrible!.... but give me a 100 cents to eat half of dozen I would not allow myself such an expense.. Charivari
Description:
Mr. Prudhomme is disgusted at a sack of oysters that cost twenty five cents. He claims that he wouldn't eat even six for one hundred cents. Jospeh Prudhomme is an artificial figure created by Henri Bonaventure Monnier. The figure appeared already before the existence of the Charivari in publications like “Magasin des Visages” and “La Galerie des Grotesques”. Prudhomme impersonated the complacent, corpulent bourgeois of that period. Monnier described him to the point when he called him “nullité magistrale” (pompous nothingness), entirely self-satisfied with himself and his insignificance.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, March 23, 1866.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
