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The Emperor is seated at a table in the centre of the scene, turned and facing left, and is signing a piece of paper.  A German general leans over him and observes.  Behind the table is a French general, who looks on.  Standing at a window to the left, and with his back to the viewer, is a short man; he looks out of the window at the destruction caused by the battle.  Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes.  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En vente chez Gabillaud, 147, rue Montmatre, rue du Croissant, et chez tous les Libraires. On trouve chez le même Éditeur : La Mort Badinguet.  10 c.     La Capitulation de Sedan     Déposé     2610. - Paris. Édouard Blot et Fils ainé, imprimeurs, rue Bleue, 7,'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Lettered"},{"content":"'Air : Rien N'est Sacré Pour un Sapeur / 1 /  Ah! qu'un monarque a donc à faure  Pour contenter tous ses sujets ; Il a tant d'monde à satisfaire  Qu' ça dérang' souvent ses projets  Et qu' ça nuit à ses intérèts.  Mais il faut conv'nir de bon compte  Que Badinguet mnaqua d'honneur,  Ah!  Quand l'traitre signa notre honte,  Rien n'est sacré pour un emp'reur. / 2 / Il avait dit d'une  voix fière : Je r'viendrai mort ou victorieux!  Mais le poltron, un' fois en guerre,  S' dit en lui-mêm qu'il valait mieux  Attendr' qu'il soit un peu plus vieux.  Le bruit des ball's et d' la mitraille, A c' qu'assure maint chroniquer,  Ah!  Lui donnait des douleurs d'entrailles.  Rien n'est sacré pour un emp'reur. / 3 / C'est en fumant sa cigarette  Que d'un trait de plume, il livra  Aux Prussiens, ivres de conquête, Soldats, canons, et coetera ; Mais un jour ou leur reprendra.  Après avoir trahi la France,  Dont il fut vingt ans l'oppresseur,  Ah!  Il veut s'venger d' sa déchéance.  Rien n'est sacré pour un emp'reur. / 4 / C; polichinelle a l'espérance,  Après ses lugubres exploits, De régner encor sur la France  Comme aux temps heureux d'autrefois : Mais on se trompe quelquefois.  Il croit, - vraiment c'est trop comique! - Nous escamoter, - le farceur!  Ah!  Un' second' fois not' République.  Rien n'est sacré pour un emp'reur. / 5 / Il a rêve, la nuit dernière,  Que dans sa bonn' vill' de Paris,  Il pénétrait la tête fière,  Escorté d' ses fidèl's amis,  Son épouse et son mioch' compris.  Mais à son réveil ô déveine!  S'etant aperçu d' son erreur,  Ah!  Il a pleuré comme un' Mad'leine.  Rien n'est sacré pour un emp'reur.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Lettered with verse"}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"'La Capitulation de Sedan'.  Satirical broadsheet with an illustration showing Napoleon III signing the terms of capitulation after the battle of Sedan.  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