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title: Del-Lâchoda devant l'Angleterre (Musée des Horreurs no. 21)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/del-lachoda-musee-des-horreurs-fashoda-1900/
description: Colour lithograph of a begging poodle in a ruff with the bespectacled, moustached head of the French foreign minister, Théophile Delcassé, under the pun…
section: Collection
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# Del-Lâchoda devant l'Angleterre (Musée des Horreurs no. 21)

Colour lithograph of a begging poodle in a ruff with the bespectacled, moustached head of the French foreign minister, Théophile Delcassé, under the pun 'Del-Lâchoda' and the line 'before England, 11 December 1898'. The name-calling tell is the animal body and the coined nickname (lâche, 'coward'), which brand the withdrawal from Fashoda as a craven submission.

- **Date:** 1900
- **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914)
- **Made by:** Victor Lenepveu, Paris (self-published anti-Dreyfusard lithograph series 'Musée des Horreurs')
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [France](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=france)
- **Medium:** [Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=cartoon)
- **Issuer type:** [Individual](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=individual)
- **Regime:** [Waldeck Rousseau Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=waldeck-rousseau-government)
- **Leader:** [Pierre Waldeck Rousseau](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=pierre-waldeck-rousseau)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize)
- **Themes:** [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism), [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics)
- **Event:** [Fashoda Crisis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=fashoda-crisis)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Duke University Libraries copy)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Del-L%C3%A2choda_-_Mus%C3%A9e_des_Horreurs_21.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (published Paris 1900; Commons: PD, artist V. Lenepveu, pre-1931) V. Lenepveu, Musée des Horreurs no. 21, Paris, 1900 (Duke University Libraries), via Wikimedia Commons

## Text on the object

Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Musée des Horreurs
N° 21
Del-Lâchoda
devant l'Angleterre
11 xbre 1898

Prochainement :
MONIS_LANESSAN_
Zidor JACOB Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur_
Boule de Juif, Georgette et Porcos 1er
chez PANAMA après l'Amnistie !
Deux TYPES du "FIGARO"_ Un du "SIÈCLE"_
Une TRUIE sans OVAIRES, etc, etc.

ABONNEMENTS :
(200 Dessins) 40 Fr.
BUREAU DE VENTE : 10, rue du Croissant
V. Lenepveu [signature]
Imp. Gérant : LENEPVEU, 58, rue Dulong, PARIS
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Museum of Horrors. No. 21. Del-Cowardoda [pun on Delcassé and Fashoda] before England, 11 December 1898. Coming soon: Monis, Lanessan; Zidor Jacob, Knight of the Legion of Honour; 'Jew-ball' [Boule de Juif], Georgette and Porcos I at Panama after the Amnesty!; two types from the 'Figaro', one from the 'Siècle'; a sow without ovaries, etc., etc. Subscriptions: (200 drawings) 40 francs. Sales office: 10 rue du Croissant. V. Lenepveu. Printer-manager: Lenepveu, 58 rue Dulong, Paris.
```

Imprint line at the foot is very small; the street number and name are read as printed but may be slightly misread. 'Del-Lâchoda' plays on Delcassé, Fashoda and lâche (coward); the translation renders the pun approximately.

[← "England and the War in South Africa" (Der wahre Jacob, 1899)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/war-and-capitalism-der-wahre-jacob-1899/) [Sífilis: Curación absoluta y radical en el Sanatorio para sifilíticos (Syphilis: Absolute and Radical Cure at the Sanatorium for Syphilitics) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sifilis-sanatorio-abreu-1900/)

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