Identifier: historyofninetee01maur (find matches)
Title: The history of the nineteenth century in caricature
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Maurice, Arthur Bartlett, 1873-1946 Cooper, Frederic Taber, 1864-1937, joint author
Subjects: History, Modern Nineteenth century Caricature
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rles X.s famous coup detat down to the revolution of1848, may be read like an open book. The adversaries ofthe government of 1830 were of two kinds. One kind, ofwhich Admiral Carrel was a type, resorted to passionate argu-ment, to indignant eloquence. The other kind resorted to themethods of the Fronde; they made war by pin-pricks, bybursts of laughter, with all the resources of French gayetyand wit. In this method the leading spirit was Philipon, whounderstood clearly the power that would result from theclosest alliance between la presse et Iimage. Even beforeLa Caricature was founded the features of the last of theBourbons became a familiar subject in cartoons. Invariablythe same features are emphasized; a tall, lank figure, fre-quently contorted like the india-rubber man of the dimemuseums; a narrow, vacuous countenance, a high, recedingforehead, over which sparse locks of hair are straggling; asalient jaw, the lips drawn back in a mirthless grin, revealing 73 .V- Jb* >-*v &
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THE PIOUS MONARCH. CARICATURE OF CHARLES X. CENTURY IN CARICATURE 75 huge, ungainly teeth, projecting like the incisors of a horse.In one memorable cartoon he is expending the full crushingpower of these teeth upon the famous charter of 1830,but is finding it a nut quite too hard to crack. From the very beginning La Caricature assumed an atti-

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