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The Empress breaks wind at her husband, the Emperor Napoleon, who is tossed into the air.  Sitting on the ground, his hat fallen off and looking up in shock, is the Prince Imperial who is about to be trampled under his mother's hind legs.  The Empress is branded with a crown and the letter 'E' on her left side.  Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes.  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Here depicted as a cow (<i>vache</i> also means a loose woman) she tosses her family in the air, farting in disrespect at her husband, while her son whines helplessly on the ground. Napoleon’s Imperial crown of laurel leaves has split into the horns of a cuckold, a reference to Eugénie’s supposed liaison with Ollivier, who still rides securely on her back.","briefDescription":"'La V...Espagnole'.   Satirical illustration by Alfred le Petit depicting the French Empress Eugénie as a cow, tossing her family in the air.  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