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Duel polémique entre Dame Quotidienne et Messire Le Journal de Paris (Polemical duel between Lady Quotidienne and Sir Le Journal de Paris)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Eugène Delacroix

Printed by: Charles Motte
Title
Duel polémique entre Dame Quotidienne et Messire Le Journal de Paris (Polemical duel between Lady Quotidienne and Sir Le Journal de Paris)
Description
English: Satire on the French press; in a jousting scene, the Ultra journal 'La Quotidienne' is shown as Don Quixote wearing boots 'à la Suwarow' (after General Suvarov) while 'Le Journal de Paris' is Sancho Panzo riding an ass, wearing a chamber-pot on his head, topped by a pennant-shaped weathervane; the joust is presided over by 'Le Moniteur', the government's official paper, represented by a man wearing a conical (éteignoir-shaped) bonnet made of newsprint who sits enthroned on a dais with eyes closed under a canopy bearing the title "Juge du Camp"; to the right and left in the centre ground the aged onlookers are identified as the conservative press ('Le Drapeau blanc', 'La Gazette de France', "L'Étoile" and 'Le Journal des Maires') while in the background behind a fence, the onlookers are smartly dressed young men representing the Liberal press ('Le Journal des Débats', 'Le Journal du Commerce') as well as 'Le Journal de Pharmacie' and 'La Gazette de Santé'; published in 'Le Miroir' on 29 September 1821
Lithograph
Depicted people Associated with: Prince Suvarov
Date 1821
date QS:P571,+1821-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 202 millimetres
Width: 300 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1987,0516.36
Notes

The conical, éteignoir-shaped bonnet worn by 'Le Moniteur' identifies him as a member of the Order of the Candle-extinguisher, symbol of obscurantism and rejection of truth, reason and progress. The weathervane worn by 'Le Journal de Paris' identifies the figure as a member of the Order of the Weathervane, an accusation of political opportunism. The orders were among three invented by 'Le Nain Jaune' and 'Le Miroir' to mock political opportunism and Ultra reaction; the other two were the Order of the Crayfish and the Order of the Candle-extinguisher. The choice of boots worn by 'La Quotidienne" is an allusion to the journal's unpatriotic flattery of the Russian occupants of France in 1815.

For the analysis of the satire, see Nina Maria Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, 'Eugène Delacroix, Prints, Politics and Satire, 1814-1822', New Haven and London, 1991, pp. 66-67.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1987-0516-36
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