--- title: Le Rire rouge, cover "Grand Bazar de la Paix - Wilhelm Directeur" (Paris, 2 November 1918) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/le-rire-rouge-grand-bazar-de-la-paix-1918/ description: Cover of Le Rire rouge no. 207, 2 November 1918, headed 'La Paix allemande, numéro spécial'. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** WWI French satirical caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a shopkeeper selling hostages and colonies. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Le Rire rouge, cover "Grand Bazar de la Paix - Wilhelm Directeur" (Paris, 2 November 1918)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/le-rire-rouge-grand-bazar-de-la-paix-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/le-rire-rouge-grand-bazar-de-la-paix-1918.jpg) # Le Rire rouge, cover "Grand Bazar de la Paix - Wilhelm Directeur" (Paris, 2 November 1918) Cover of Le Rire rouge no. 207, 2 November 1918, headed 'La Paix allemande, numéro spécial'. Abel Faivre draws Kaiser Wilhelm II as the manager of a department store, 'Grand Bazar de la Paix', among price tickets such as 'Rabais considérables', 'Vente d'otages' and 'Salons de société pour nations'. The shop-sign frame turns the German peace overtures into a sales pitch, and the labels select only the offences the cartoonist wants attached to them. ## Text on the object Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` LA PAIX ALLEMANDE — NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL N° 207. — 2 Novembre 1918. Le Rire ROUGE ÉDITION DE GUERRE DU JOURNAL "LE RIRE", PARAISSANT LE SAMEDI 40 Centimes — F. JUVEN, éditeur — 1, rue de Choiseul, 1 — PARIS Copyright 1918 by LE RIRE, Paris GRAND BAZAR DE LA PAIX WILHELM DIRECTEUR [shop tickets, partly covered by the figure] Rabais considérables — Magnifique occasion de terrain[s] — Vente d'otages et d'objets [partly illegible] — Salons de société pour nations — Vive la liberté russe — Un Monsieur serait acheteur de colonies au prix [partly illegible] — [Maximaliste, partly covered] — Prob[ably 'Probité', partly covered] — Confi[ance, partly covered] VOIR A L'INTÉRIEUR Dessin de Abel Faivre. ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE GERMAN PEACE — SPECIAL ISSUE No. 207. — 2 November 1918. Le Rire ROUGE WAR EDITION OF THE JOURNAL "LE RIRE", APPEARING ON SATURDAY 40 centimes — F. JUVEN, publisher — 1 rue de Choiseul, Paris Copyright 1918 by LE RIRE, Paris GREAT BAZAAR OF PEACE WILHELM, MANAGER [shop tickets] Considerable discounts — Magnificent opportunity: land — Sale of hostages and objects [partly illegible] — Society salons for nations — Long live Russian liberty — A gentleman would be a buyer of colonies at the price [partly illegible] — [Maximalist, partly covered] — Prob[...] — Confi[...] SEE INSIDE Drawing by Abel Faivre. ``` Read from the 1280 px cover image. Several shop tickets are partly hidden by the standing figure; fragments are given as they show and the rest is marked partly illegible. 'Prob' and 'Confi' are cut off by the figure and are not expanded in the original-text field beyond the visible letters. 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