--- title: '"Monsieur Cécil Rhodes" (Le Rire cover, 1900)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/le-rire-cecil-rhodes-leandre-1900/ description: Colour cover caricature of a heavy-jowled Cecil Rhodes leaning on the barred top of a stone tower, a champagne bottle stuffed in his collar, a small flag… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [!["Monsieur Cécil Rhodes" (Le Rire cover, 1900)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/le-rire-cecil-rhodes-leandre-1900.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/le-rire-cecil-rhodes-leandre-1900.jpg) # "Monsieur Cécil Rhodes" (Le Rire cover, 1900) Colour cover caricature of a heavy-jowled Cecil Rhodes leaning on the barred top of a stone tower, a champagne bottle stuffed in his collar, a small flag on a pole behind him and a paper reading 'actions mines d'or diamants' in his fist. The caption calls him 'Chamberlain's accomplice' who will have shed more blood in Africa than champagne at Kimberley: a loaded label plus grotesque props do the accusing. - **Date:** February 17, 1900 - **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914) - **Made by:** Le Rire (Paris satirical weekly); cartoonist Charles Léandre - **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:** [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), [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:** [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division](https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002718139/), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (published 1900; artist d. 1934; LOC rights status 'not evaluated') Charles Léandre, Le Rire, no. 276, Paris, 17 February 1900, cover. Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-593 (Illus. in AP103.R4 1900, Case X). ## Text on the object Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` N° 276. 6e année. 17 Février 1900. 15 centimes. Le Rire JOURNAL HUMORISTIQUE PARAISSANT LE SAMEDI M. Félix JUVEN, Directeur. — Partie artistique : M. Arsène ALEXANDRE La reproduction des dessins du RIRE est absolument interdite aux publications, françaises ou étrangères, sans autorisation 10, rue Saint-Joseph, 10 PARIS Les manuscrits et dessins non insérés ne sont pas rendus. LE GOTHA DU RIRE. — N° XXVIII Monsieur CÉCIL RHODES actions mines d'or DIAMANTS [on the paper in his hand] CHAMPAG[NE] CHARTER[ED] C° [on the bottle label, partly hidden] C. Léandre 1900 [signature, left] Le complice de Chamberlain aura fait verser plus de sang en Afrique que de champagne à Kimberley. Dessin de Ch. LÉANDRE. [subscription-price lines at left of masthead: Un an : Paris, 8 fr. Départements, 9 fr. Étranger, 11 fr. Six mois : France, 5 fr. Étranger, 6 fr.] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` No. 276. 6th year. 17 February 1900. 15 centimes. Le Rire HUMOROUS JOURNAL APPEARING ON SATURDAYS Mr. Félix JUVEN, Director. — Art department: Mr. Arsène ALEXANDRE Reproduction of the drawings of RIRE is absolutely forbidden to publications, French or foreign, without authorisation 10, rue Saint-Joseph, 10 PARIS Manuscripts and drawings not published are not returned. THE GOTHA OF LE RIRE. — No. XXVIII Mr. CECIL RHODES shares gold mines DIAMONDS [on the paper in his hand] CHAMPAG[NE] CHARTER[ED] CO [on the bottle label, partly hidden] C. Léandre 1900 [signature, left] Chamberlain's accomplice will have caused more blood to be shed in Africa than champagne at Kimberley. Drawing by Ch. LÉANDRE. [subscription-price lines: One year: Paris 8 fr., provinces 9 fr., abroad 11 fr. Six months: France 5 fr., abroad 6 fr.] ``` Small masthead print read from a 1.5x enlargement; the bottle label is cut off by the collar and is read as CHAMPAG / CHARTER / C°. [← 時局圖 (The Situation in the Far East / Map of the Present Situation), newer version with English labels](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/situation-in-far-east-tse-tsan-tai-1900/) ["Negro Rule" vampire cartoon with sworn affidavit →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/negro-rule-vampire-1900/) ## Using the same techniques - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (1791 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Exit Liberté a la Francois! or Buonaparte closing the Farce of Egalité, at St. Cloud (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/exit-liberte-buonaparte-gillray-1799/) (Nov 21, 1799 · Name-calling) - [Van Moscouw tot Elba moest ik wyken (From Moscow to Elba I had to give way), Napoleon caricature by Wijnand Esser](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/van-moscouw-tot-elba-napoleon-esser-1814/) (1814 · Name-calling)