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title: 'Fidèles compagnons du buveur : Misère & Mort (The Drinker''s Faithful Companions: Misery and Death)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/misere-et-mort-anti-alcohol-1905/
description: At a Paris cafe table under a 'Taverne, Brasserie' awning, with the Moulin Rouge behind, a drinker holding a glass sits between a gaunt figure and a…
section: Collection
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# Fidèles compagnons du buveur : Misère & Mort (The Drinker's Faithful Companions: Misery and Death)

At a Paris cafe table under a 'Taverne, Brasserie' awning, with the Moulin Rouge behind, a drinker holding a glass sits between a gaunt figure and a skeleton with a scythe. The caption names them his faithful companions, 'Misery and Death'. Fear-appeal tell: Death personified at the table, with no figures or outcomes cited.

- **Date:** 1905
- **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914)
- **Made by:** Annales anti-alcooliques, Paris (lithograph by Jean-Jacques Waltz, 'Hansi', for Berger-Levrault)
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [France](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=france)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Movement](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=movement)
- **Regime:** [Rouvier Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=rouvier-government)
- **Leader:** [Maurice Rouvier](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=maurice-rouvier)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Warn or inform](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=warn-inform)
- **Theme:** [Health](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=health)
- **Techniques:** [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wellcome Collection (London), work b15431630, reference 543163i](https://wellcomecollection.org/works/x67j236k), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (Wellcome Collection Public Domain Mark; published 1905) Wellcome Collection

## Text on the object

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

```
Fidèles compagnons du buveur :
Misère & Mort

[Awning, mirror-reversed as seen from inside the cafe:] TAVERNE. BRASSERIE AU B[...]
[Signature, lower left of image:] J.J. Waltz 1905
[Lower right of image:] Berger-Levrault C.ie éd.
[Imprint line:] Annales anti-alcooliques, 12, rue Condé, Paris VIe.
```

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

```
The drinker's faithful companions: Misery and Death. [Awning:] Tavern. Brasserie at the B[...]
```

The awning lettering is cut off by the picture edge after 'AU B'; the name of the establishment is not visible.

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