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title: Au parc Monceau (In the Parc Monceau), Psst...!, 31 December 1898
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/psst-au-parc-monceau-reinach-1898/
description: 'Page from a satirical weekly: a park keeper in the distance holds up a newspaper headed ''Libre Parole 100000 francs!'' while, in the foreground, a stooped…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Antisemitic caricature of the Dreyfusard deputy Joseph Reinach with exaggerated features and ape-like proportions, from the anti-Dreyfusard weekly Psst...!; shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Au parc Monceau (In the Parc Monceau), Psst...!, 31 December 1898](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/psst-au-parc-monceau-reinach-1898.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/psst-au-parc-monceau-reinach-1898.jpg)

# Au parc Monceau (In the Parc Monceau), Psst...!, 31 December 1898

Page from a satirical weekly: a park keeper in the distance holds up a newspaper headed 'Libre Parole 100000 francs!' while, in the foreground, a stooped figure in top hat and scarf with a beard, an enlarged nose and arms stretching almost to the ground is named in the caption as 'M'sieu Reinach'. The drawing gives the named politician non-human, ape-like proportions and a stereotyped Jewish face, so the label is carried by the figure's shape rather than by an argument.

## Text on the object

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

```
Au parc Monceau

[in the drawing, on the newspaper held by the keeper:] LIBRE PAROLE / 100000 / FRANCS !

LE GARDIEN : — « Bigre ! voilà M'sieu Reinach qui n'a pas l'air de bonne humeur. »

[faint show-through of text from the reverse of the sheet at the top: [illegible]]
```

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

```
In the Parc Monceau

[in the drawing, on the newspaper held by the keeper:] FREE SPEECH [title of the newspaper La Libre Parole] / 100000 / FRANCS!

THE KEEPER: — "Blimey! Here's Mr Reinach, who doesn't look to be in a good mood."

[faint show-through of text from the reverse of the sheet at the top: [illegible]]
```

Read from the 1280 px reproduction; the artist's signature at lower right is not legible. 'Bigre' is a mild colloquial exclamation, translated as 'Blimey'. English is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← 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/les-anglais-au-siam-egypte-soudan-malbet-1898/) [Pears' Soap: "The first step towards lightening the White Man's Burden" (Cosmopolitan advertisement, 1899) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pears-soap-white-mans-burden-1899/)

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