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- Tell me, Mayor . . . what are communists? - Pierre, they are people who want to have money in common with every Frenchman: common work, common land. - Well, in my opinion there is one thing they seem to be lacking: common sense. (- Dites donc, not'maire...des communistes qué qu'cest qu'ça? . . . - Pierre, ce sont des gens qui veulent qu'entre tous les français l'argent soit commun, le travail commun, le terrain commun... - Ah! ben m'est avis que pour commencer y n'ont pas l'sens commun!), number 42 from the series As You Like It (Tout ce qu'on voudra)

- Tell me, Mayor . . . what are communists? - Pierre, they are people who want to have money in common with every Frenchman: common work, common land. - Well, in my opinion there is one thing they seem to be lacking: common sense. (- Dites donc, not'maire...des communistes qué qu'cest qu'ça? . . . - Pierre, ce sont des gens qui veulent qu'entre tous les français l'argent soit commun, le travail commun, le terrain commun... - Ah! ben m'est avis que pour commencer y n'ont pas l'sens commun!), number 42 from the series As You Like It (Tout ce qu'on voudra)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
- Tell me, Mayor . . . what are communists? - Pierre, they are people who want to have money in common with every Frenchman: common work, common land. - Well, in my opinion there is one thing they seem to be lacking: common sense. (- Dites donc, not'maire...des communistes qué qu'cest qu'ça? . . . - Pierre, ce sont des gens qui veulent qu'entre tous les français l'argent soit commun, le travail commun, le terrain commun... - Ah! ben m'est avis que pour commencer y n'ont pas l'sens commun!), number 42 from the series As You Like It (Tout ce qu'on voudra)
Date
1848
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
15 1/16 x 10 1/4 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1979.1768
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

to 1979, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); December 1979, gifted to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Delteil, Loys. "Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. XX-XXIX." Paris, 1906-1926. no. 1688

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