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
- Made by
- Annales anti-alcooliques, Paris (lithograph by Jean-Jacques Waltz, 'Hansi', for Berger-Levrault)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- France
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Rouvier Government
- Leader
- Maurice Rouvier
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- Health
- Techniques
- Fear appeal
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wellcome Collection (London), work b15431630, reference 543163i, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Wellcome Collection Public Domain Mark; published 1905)
Wellcome Collection
Text on the object
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.
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.
