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
- Made by
- Le Grelot (Paris satirical weekly); cartoonist Alfred Le Petit
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- France
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Combes Government
- Leader
- Emile Combes
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- Empire and colonialism, War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- Second Boer War
- 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), 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
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]
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.
