V'la , v'la l'coco! il est frais. - tu nous embêtes avec ton coco, nous n'en voulons plus.
Title (alt.):
- Here it is, here's the liquorice water! it is fresh. - you, leave us alone with your liquorice water, we don't want it.
Description:
This print refers to an April 22, 1833 decision to build a 36 km wall around Paris. This fortification included 94 bastions and 17 forts and was realized between 1841 and 1845. The Republican press understood this new fortress wall as another instrument of suppression of the people of Paris and opposed Thiers and the King. In the back of the print, we see Louis-Philippe leisurely watching a mason coursing a stone. He wears the usual hat with cockade and umbrella, symbol of his Citizen King's attitude, while the other workmen are watching impassively. A woman is selling liquorice water to workers during their break. In French, "coco" also means "fool". Coco was a kind of liquorice water, which was hawked on the streets of Paris. The revolutionaries in July 1830, drank coco, not wine, in order to avoid excesses.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
Published in: Le Charivari, August 1, 1833
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
