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Enlace: http://www.napoleon.org/en/special_dossier/caricatures/car-principal.html
Descripción: Fondation Napoléon, in partnership with the Musée de Malmaison.
«Ogre? Devil? Poisoned dwarf?
Though often idolised these days, Napoleon in his time aroused the most violent hatred. English humour, German satires, French political subversion...»
«Anti-napoleonic caricature, both disrespectful and perverse, had two aims in mind. On the one hand, it launched a direct attack against the Emperor's image with the national variations which we will study further along the way. On the other hand, it attempted to break the spirit of the French which had already been damaged by Napoleon's excesses...»
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