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
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.
- Date
- December 31, 1898
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Psst...! (Paris illustrated weekly founded in 1898 by Jean-Louis Forain and Caran d'Ache); artist Caran d'Ache per Wikimedia Commons
- Country
- France
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Dupuy Government
- Leader
- Charles Dupuy
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- Dreyfus Affair
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (reproduction of a Gallica / Bibliotheque nationale de France scan), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (per Wikimedia Commons: published 1898; Caran d'Ache d. 1909)
Caran d'Ache (Emmanuel Poiré, 1858-1909), Psst...!, 31 December 1898. Gallica / Bibliotheque nationale de France via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
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]]
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.
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