“HAVE ALL THE PALAYEURS RETURNED FROM PARIS?” LE PETIT (Alfred)....

“HAVE ALL THE PALAYEURS RETURNED FROM PARIS?”
LE PETIT (Alfred).
“Have all the street sweepers returned from Paris?
— Yeah!
— What about their brooms?
— Nope.
— Mein Gott? Then we’re doomed!
— Yeah!!”
Plate from the Actualités series, No. 3.
Caricature depicting two helmeted Prussian soldiers, one with a bird perched on his helmet holding a broom, in a satire based on a pun between “balayeurs” (sweepers) and “balais” (brooms).
Black lithograph.
Paris, F. Wentzel, Printer and Publisher, 65 Rue Saint-Jacques.
Signed on the plate: A. Le Petit.
Quite numerous foxing spots, particularly in the margins; slight general browning.