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This caricature plays on the double meaning of <i>La Grue</i>, either a crane or a woman of loose morals. In 1869 the Empress visited Suez for the opening of the canal. According to Goncourt, Princess Mathilde (pl. 9) said that the journey was purely an ‘opportunity to make eyes at some Eastern prince from her steamboat. Because she always needs men around her to pay court to her and talk smut to her without rumpling her dress . . . Why, the other day she actually said to me that a woman can yield everything, except the <i>main thing</i>!’'","briefDescription":"'Eugénie  La Grue (Pose-Bêtise)'.  Satirical illustration by Paul Hadol  showing the Empress Eugénie as a crane.  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This caricature plays on the double meaning of 'La Grue', either a crane or a woman of loose morals. In 1869 the Empress visited Suez for the opening of the canal. Princess Mathilde said that the journey was purely an 'opportunity to make eyes at some Eastern prince from her steamboat'.\r\n\r\nNapoleon III characterised as cowardly and ferocious.\r\n\r\nThe Prince Imperial was the only child of the Emperor and Empress. The artist draws him as a 'serin' [canary] a word which has a secondary sense of 'ignoramus'.\r\n\r\nLithographs, coloured by hand. From a series of 32. E.281-284-1962","date":{"text":"27/05/1971-10/10/1971","earliest":"1971-05-27","latest":"1971-10-10"}}],"partNumbers":["E.283-1962"],"accessionNumberNum":"283","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1962,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2009-01-27","availableToBook":false}}