The caricatural series entitled “The Imperial menagerie” was commercialised by the satirical magazine L’Eclipse. Here the French Republic is shown as a woman leading the viewer towards an exotic funfair-type exhibition of human-animal hybrids from the French imperial family and its supporters. The caricaturist, Paul Hadol (1835-1875), created this gallery of the “ruminants, amphibians, carnivores” and other “budgetivores” who had been “devouring France for 20 years”.

Paris: Chez Rossignol, Au Bureau de L’Eclipse, [1870]

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