Robert Macaire is trying to convince his judges that he is innocent. The caption reads: "Very well! Yes, gentlemen, I was rather unfortunate at the Assizes... but misfortune is always respectable!... moreover, if everything that has been said is true, and I've a habit of subtracting money, it's easier to excuse me than someone else because it's harder for me to resist my weakness... as for the rest, I am accused of selling lead for gold? Twenty witnesses swear to it. Very well! I deny it forty times and since two denials are worth an avowal it's clear that you cannot find me guilty. (after this brilliant improvisation Robert Macaire is condemned with a maximum sentence)."
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, February 28, 1837.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
