RATAPOIL (à part) . - Je crois qu'ils commencent à connaitre le tour.
Title (alt.):
RATAPOIL (aside) .- I think they are beginning to understand the trick.. Charivari
Description:
Ratapoil stands before a crowd holding the yes votes. It seems that the French people have finally understood the risks involved in a plebiscite after having gone through this experience three times with disastrous results. Maybe a new feeling for political responsibility has developed. Ratapoil was a fictitious name for a Bonapartist rogue and hit man, an active member of the so called “Société du 10 Décembre” and the henchman of Napoléon III. He always carried a menacing cudgel, using it like a baseball bat to convince political opponents to change their votes in favour of the Bonapartist party. Daumier created a beautiful sculpture of Ratapoil expressing all the violence and aggressiveness of this character in a highly convincing way.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, November 27, 1871.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
