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just as he was horn to command the beasts who came before him" , [pIa,S]<br />

According to Toussenel, the races that most look up to the woman stand highest: at<br />

times the Germans, but above all the French and the Greeks. "'As the Athenian<br />

and the Frenchman are denoted by the falcon, so are the Roman and the Englishman<br />

by the eagle." (<strong>The</strong> eagle, however, ! . ! . does not rally to the service of' humanity,")<br />

A, Toussene!, Le Monde des oiseaux, voL 1 (Paris, 1853), p. 125. [pla,6]<br />

Comic physiologies: Musee pour rire; Musee Philipon; Musee or Magasin COTnique;<br />

Musee Parisien; Les Metamorphoses dujour. [P2,1]<br />

Series of drawings. Les 'Vesuviennes, by Beaumont: twenty prints. Daumier's series<br />

Les Divorceuses . A series (by whom?) titled Les Bas-bleus<br />

.' [p2,2]<br />

Rise of the physiologies: ! . I.<strong>The</strong> burning political struggle of the years 1830-1835<br />

had formed an army of draftsmen, . .. and this army . .. was completely knocked<br />

out, politically speaking, by the September Laws. At a time, that is, when they had<br />

fathomed aU the secrets of their art, they were suddenly restricted to a single<br />

theater of operations: the description of bourgeois life . . . . This is the circumstance<br />

that explains the colossal revue of bourgeois life inaugurated around the<br />

middle of the 1830s in France . ... Everything came into the picture: ... happy<br />

days and sad days, work and recreation, marriage customs and bachelor habits,<br />

family, house, child, school, society, theater, types, professions." Eduard Fuchs,<br />

Die Karikatur der europiiischen 'Volker; 4th ed. (Munich

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