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Caption continues: Du flan, j'aime mieux le Moniteur, il ne coûte qu'un sou, et il y a de la politique dessus.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1864 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "71" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower left; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 26 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Print shows two boys in uniform walking arm-in-arm through an open air market; the boy at left gestures towards a pastry counter as he turns to question his companion who gestures towards a newstand selling the newspaper Le Moniteur at right.