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Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes.  Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Colomb, B. 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He gave up a brilliant academic career to fight for the rights of the masses. He led a battalion of the National Guard from Belleville until their dispersal after the Hallowe'en revolt and after that his own private band of <i>tireurs</i>.\r\n\r\nHe was brutally killed by the Versaillais' troops at Rueil on 3 April. His dead body was wheeled triumphantly through the streets of Versailles for all to see.","briefDescription":"'Flourens'.  Satirical illustration by B. Colomb ('Moloch')  in which Gustave Flourens, wearing spurs, tosses Jules Favre, Adolphe Thiers and Claude Picard in the air while trampling on General Trochu.  Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Lambert, Susan, <u>The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71: catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum</u>, London, V&A, 1971","id":"AUTH353267"},"details":"","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962</u>. 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