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title: Les Anglais au Siam, en Égypte, au Soudan et autres lieux (The English in Siam, Egypt, the Sudan and Other Places), La France illustrée
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/les-anglais-au-siam-egypte-soudan-malbet-1898/
description: A dark engraving of three white mice at a table, one nibbling crumbs beside a basket and two drinking from a full cup, carries the caption 'The English…
section: Collection
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[![Les Anglais au Siam, en Égypte, au Soudan et autres lieux (The English in Siam, Egypt, the Sudan and Other Places), La France illustrée](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/les-anglais-au-siam-egypte-soudan-malbet-1898.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/les-anglais-au-siam-egypte-soudan-malbet-1898.jpg)

# Les Anglais au Siam, en Égypte, au Soudan et autres lieux (The English in Siam, Egypt, the Sudan and Other Places), La France illustrée

A dark engraving of three white mice at a table, one nibbling crumbs beside a basket and two drinking from a full cup, carries the caption 'The English in Siam, in Egypt, in the Sudan and other places'. Name-calling tell: the caption alone turns a still-life of vermin into a label for Britain's colonial expansion, in the weeks of the Fashoda confrontation.

- **Date:** November 19, 1898
- **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914)
- **Made by:** La France illustrée (Paris illustrated weekly); painting by Léontine Malbet
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [France](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=france)
- **Medium:** [Print](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=print)
- **Issuer type:** [Media](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=media)
- **Regime:** [Dupuy Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=dupuy-government)
- **Leader:** [Charles Dupuy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=charles-dupuy)
- **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), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information)
- **Event:** [Fashoda Crisis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=fashoda-crisis)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (from BnF Gallica, La France illustrée)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustration_anglophobe_dans_La_France_illustr%C3%A9e_(1898).png), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (published Paris 1898; Commons PD tag, credit BnF Gallica) La France illustrée, Paris, 19 November 1898, after L. Malbet; BnF Gallica, via Wikimedia Commons

## Text on the object

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

```
Les Anglais au Siam, en Egypte, au Soudan et autres lieux, d'après le tableau de Mlle Malbet.
[signature at lower left of image:] L. MALBET
```

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

```
The English in Siam, in Egypt, in the Sudan and other places, after the painting by Mlle Malbet. [Signature:] L. Malbet
```

The caption is set in small type below the engraving and is read at the committed resolution; the signature is partly dark against the table edge.

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