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Robert Macaire, Professor of French. - All right ladies . . . let us start conjugating the word "diddle".- - Excuse me Sir? - I said the verb "diddle"! - What does this word mean? - It means : steal, pinch, swipe, embezzle, to pick someone's pockets, to screw and swindle students and teach them to camouflage a nasty French language. (Robert Macaire Professeur de Francais. Allons, Mesdemoiselles, nous allons conjuguer le Verbe flouer. – Si’ous plait, M’ssieu ! – Je dis : le Verbe flouer. – qui c’est que ça pour un Verbe ? – ça veut dire grincher, soulever, chipper . . . flouer un gonse, lui faire sa Tocante, son blavin; flouer des élèves, leur apprendre à Maquiller un mauvais Français.), number 4 from the series Robert Macaire

Robert Macaire, Professor of French. - All right ladies . . . let us start conjugating the word "diddle".- - Excuse me Sir? - I said the verb "diddle"! - What does this word mean? - It means : steal, pinch, swipe, embezzle, to pick someone's pockets, to screw and swindle students and teach them to camouflage a nasty French language. (Robert Macaire Professeur de Francais. Allons, Mesdemoiselles, nous allons conjuguer le Verbe flouer. – Si’ous plait, M’ssieu ! – Je dis : le Verbe flouer. – qui c’est que ça pour un Verbe ? – ça veut dire grincher, soulever, chipper . . . flouer un gonse, lui faire sa Tocante, son blavin; flouer des élèves, leur apprendre à Maquiller un mauvais Français.), number 4 from the series Robert Macaire

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
Robert Macaire, Professor of French. - All right ladies . . . let us start conjugating the word "diddle".- - Excuse me Sir? - I said the verb "diddle"! - What does this word mean? - It means : steal, pinch, swipe, embezzle, to pick someone's pockets, to screw and swindle students and teach them to camouflage a nasty French language. (Robert Macaire Professeur de Francais. Allons, Mesdemoiselles, nous allons conjuguer le Verbe flouer. – Si’ous plait, M’ssieu ! – Je dis : le Verbe flouer. – qui c’est que ça pour un Verbe ? – ça veut dire grincher, soulever, chipper . . . flouer un gonse, lui faire sa Tocante, son blavin; flouer des élèves, leur apprendre à Maquiller un mauvais Français.), number 4 from the series Robert Macaire
Date
1840
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
7 7/16 x 9 11/16 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1977.344
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

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To 1977, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); December 1977, gifted to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Delteil, Loys. "Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. XX-XXIX." Paris, 1906-1926. no. 869

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