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Français : Le Carnaval de 1815   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
Français : Le Carnaval de 1815
Description
Français : ou Le macaroni Impérial
English: Napoleon and Cambacérès are shown as two figures from the Italian Commedia del'Arte: Napoleon as Harlequin, and Cambacérès as Pulcinella. They stand on either side of a large cube, representing the map of the Empire. Napoleon has a pile of gold coins under his hand, as if he were placing a bet, and there is a bag of coins on the floor. They are dishing up large strings of macaroni, representing the multiple conscriptions that were needed to replenish the army that was being decimated by the continuing military campaigns. The soldier standing behind Napoleon has lost a leg, and has a bandage on his head and his other foot. He's smoking a pipe, but "fuming" as well because Napoleon and Cambacérès are doing so little to help him. His reference to a "Louis" is tongue-in-cheek, referring both to a coin and to Louis XVIII.


Reference Source: Clerc No. 26; George #12903.
The drawing reproduced in Clerc is identical, except that the date is 1814 instead of 1815. She notes the publishing date as 1814-1815. Also found in the De Vinck Collection, tome 67, folio 40,#8879 and Collection de l'Histoire de France, Qb1, 22 fev.1814..

  • Subjects (LCSH): Political cartoons; History--Caricatures & cartoons; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Cambacérès, Jean Jacques Régis de, 1753-1824
Date circa 1815
date QS:P571,+1815-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: Etching, hand colored ; sheet 22 x 25 cm.
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
97
Place of creation Paris
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Caption on image :

Le Carnaval de 1815 (The carnival of 1815)
ou Le macaroni Impérial (The imperial macaroni)

Dialogue and signage :
[Napoleon]Je la Goberai, c'est sur! (I'm in for it, for sure)
[Cambacérès]Tout ça file tout, ça file en même temps!... (It all goes, it all goes at once)
[Soldier]Ils chiquent! moi, je fume...un Louis me sauverait! (They're chewing, me, I'm smoking...one Louis would save me)
[Papers in soldier's pocket]Billet d'Hopital (hospital ticket), Feuille de R. (Sheet of R), Réforme (reform) .
[Macaroni strands]GeNale mobile, sédentaire (general mobilization, sedentary), Conscription de 1815, 1813, 1808, 1809, Conscription de 1812, Conscription 1814, 1807, 1810, 1806, 1811, an 13, an 10 (Draft of [various years]
[Map on table]France, Corse (Corsica)

[Moneybags on floor]Contribution Ordinaire (ordinary contribution/taxes), Contribution Extra (extra contribution/taxes)
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English: Napoleonic Period Collection
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NAP53
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