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Ma belle mère, m'avait bien dit que sa fille était somnambule, mais elle ne m'avait pas confié qu'elle dansait le cancan // [My mother-in-law had warned me that her daughter was a sleep-walker, but she did not tell me she danced the cancan].

1842

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Depiction: Man lying in bed while wife in nightshirt does cancan.
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Call Number
E-South 02/GC003/Box 02/Normal GA 2024.00065
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Publisher
Paris : chez Bauger, 1842/05/29.
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Author
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Related Name
Chez Bauger et Cie
Language
French
Subject
Couples—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Dancers—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Caricature
Magazine illustration—19th century
Lithographs—France—Paris—1842
Prints (visual works)—France—Paris—1842
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