Content note: Cartoon with a nude allegorical female figure (Truth); no graphic violence. This object is shown as it was published. Why
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!...'.
- Date
- July 14, 1898
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Le Sifflet (Paris illustrated weekly); artist Henri-Gabriel Ibels
- Country
- France
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Brisson Government
- Leader
- Henri Brisson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- Dreyfus Affair
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (reproduction of a Gallica / Bibliotheque nationale de France scan, ark bpt6k57649295, folio 1), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (per Wikimedia Commons: published 1898; Gallica scan cited)
Henri-Gabriel Ibels (1867-1936), Le Sifflet, 14 July 1898, cover. Gallica / Bibliotheque nationale de France via Wikimedia Commons. Converted from PNG to grayscale JPEG for hosting.
Text on the object
APRÈS LES FAMEUSES RÉVÉLATIONS DE M. CAVAIGNAC — Que ça!... [artist's signature at lower right, probably Ibels; partly legible]
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.
