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Napoleon III, his assistant, is depicted as a pig on the right.  Wilhelm stands at the edge of the river Rhine wearing a monk's habit, the strings of which are tugged by a devil towards France.  Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes.  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