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title: Après les fameuses révélations de M. Cavaignac (After M. Cavaignac's Famous Revelations), Le Sifflet, 14 July 1898
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/le-sifflet-verite-esterhazy-1898/
description: 'Full-page lithograph cartoon on the cover of a satirical weekly: a nude female figure standing at a well, the traditional allegory of Truth, holds out a…'
section: Collection
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**Content note:** Cartoon with a nude allegorical female figure (Truth); no graphic violence. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Après les fameuses révélations de M. Cavaignac (After M. Cavaignac's Famous Revelations), Le Sifflet, 14 July 1898](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/le-sifflet-verite-esterhazy-1898.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/le-sifflet-verite-esterhazy-1898.jpg)

# Après les fameuses révélations de M. Cavaignac (After M. Cavaignac's Famous Revelations), Le Sifflet, 14 July 1898

Full-page lithograph cartoon on the cover of a satirical weekly: a nude female figure standing at a well, the traditional allegory of Truth, holds out a hand mirror to a slumped, uniformed commandant with a medal on his chest, who covers his face. The allegory carries the prestige of the national and classical figure of Truth over to one side's reading of events and shows the opposing officer cowering in front of it; no argument is stated beyond the title and the single caption 'Que ça!...'.

## Text on the object

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

```
APRÈS LES FAMEUSES RÉVÉLATIONS DE M. CAVAIGNAC

— Que ça!...

[artist's signature at lower right, probably Ibels; partly legible]
```

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

```
AFTER M. CAVAIGNAC'S FAMOUS REVELATIONS

— Que ça!... [colloquial exclamation, left untranslated; sense uncertain]
```

Title above the drawing and caption below read from the 960 px reproduction; the masthead of the periodical is not in the cropped image. 'Que ça!' is a colloquial exclamation and its sense here is uncertain; English is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

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