Political Satire and Caricatures

A series of political illustrations and caricatures depicting social commentary and satire from the late 18th to 19th century. The images feature lively scenes of chaos and humor.

Visit of M. Thiers to his house in the Place St. Georges, 1872. 'It will be remembered that one of the frantic acts of futile spite and vengeance perpetrated, a year and a half ago, by the furious fanatics of the Paris Commune, was to destroy the private mansion of M. Thiers, in the Place St. Georges, about the same time that they pulled down the Napoleon Column in the Place Vendôme. The French National Assembly at Versailles, upon the recovery of Paris from that carnival of democratic insanity, resolved that the veteran statesman's house should be rebuilt at the public cost; and the work
Visit of M. Thiers to his house in the Place St. Georges, 1872. 'It will be remembered that one of the frantic acts of futile spite and vengeance perpetrated, a year and a half ago, by the furious fanatics of the Paris Commune, was to destroy the private mansion of M. Thiers, in the Place St. Georges, about the same time that they pulled down the Napoleon Column in the Place Vendôme. The French National Assembly at Versailles, upon the recovery of Paris from that carnival of democratic insanity, resolved that the veteran statesman's house should be rebuilt at the public cost; and the work