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title: La fin de la guerre anglo-boer ou Donnant donnant (Alfred Le Petit, Le Grelot)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fin-de-la-guerre-anglo-boer-le-grelot-1902/
description: Alfred Le Petit's cartoon shows a crowned, goggle-eyed Edward VII grasping a sack marked 1.250.000 f while two grotesque figures reach out their hands…
section: Collection
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# La fin de la guerre anglo-boer ou Donnant donnant (Alfred Le Petit, Le Grelot)

Alfred Le Petit's cartoon shows a crowned, goggle-eyed Edward VII grasping a sack marked 1.250.000 f while two grotesque figures reach out their hands, one holding up a tiny figure in a slouch hat; the king says 'I'm still profiting'. Grotesque features and the money-sack label the British crown as the war's profiteer.

- **Date:** June 1902
- **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914)
- **Made by:** Le Grelot (Paris satirical weekly); cartoonist Alfred Le Petit
- **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:** [Media](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=media)
- **Regime:** [Combes Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=combes-government)
- **Leader:** [Emile Combes](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=emile-combes)
- **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), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance)
- **Event:** [Second Boer War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=second-boer-war)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (from Getty Research Institute / Internet Archive Book Images)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_VII_of_the_United_Kingdom_by_Alfred_Le_Petit,_1902.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (published 1902; artist d. 1909; Commons: no known copyright restrictions) Alfred Le Petit, Le Grelot, Paris, 15 June 1902; via Getty Research Institute / Internet Archive Book Images and Wikimedia Commons

## Text on the object

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

```
Alfred Le Petit [signature]
1.250.000 f [on the sack]
LA FIN DE LA GUERRE ANGLO-BOER OU DONNANT DONNANT.
Edouard VII. — J'y gagne encore.....
[illegible fragment of a printed line at lower right]
```

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

```
Alfred Le Petit [signature]
1,250,000 francs [on the sack]
THE END OF THE ANGLO-BOER WAR, OR GIVE AND TAKE.
Edward VII. — I'm still profiting from it.....
[illegible fragment]
```

The figure on the sack is read as 1.250.000 f; the last printed fragment at lower right is cut off.

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