Robert Macaire is introducing a man to his replacement. The caption reads: "There's merchandise an' merchandise! You wan' a common replacement, that'll cost yer only 800 F., but I warn yer, they're all swindlers, crooks who don't stay with their regiment, who skedaddle at the first opportunity and who 'ave ter be retrieved.... Would yer like ter make it 1,500 F., take that speciment, it ain't handsome but it's of good composition and it's got papers... As many as yer like an' it don't flinch from six years' service. --Bertrand (aside): You c'n count on it, civilian!"
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
Published in: Le Charivari, February 20, 1837.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
