Une NAVIGATION DIFFICILE. - Le canot n'avance pas!... tirez donc M. Dumouchel... que diable vous ne tirez pas! - Mais je ne fais que cela depuis 3 heures... et on appelle ça une partie de plaisir! j'aime encore mieux vendre mes pruneaux rue de la verrerie... c'est moins fatiguant.
Une NAVIGATION DIFFICILE. - Le canot n'avance pas!... tirez donc M. Dumouchel... que diable vous ne tirez pas! - Mais je ne fais que cela depuis 3 heures... et on appelle ça une partie de plaisir! j'aime encore mieux vendre mes pruneaux rue de la verrerie... c'est moins fatiguant.
Title (alt.):
A DIFFICULT NAVIGATION. - The boat doesn't move! Pull, Dumouchel, pull.... why the devil don't you pull! - But I am doing nothing other than that for the last three hours!.... and this is called a pleasure trip! I'd rather sell my prunes in rue de la Verrerie.... that's less tiring!. Charivari
Description:
Two boatmen are trying to navigate a boat on the Seine by attaching its mast to a rope and pulling at it from the shoreline.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
3rd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, May 4, 1843.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
