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We can read below this caricature of the satirical periodic "Ba-Ta-Clan", published June 19, 1869, a little poem :

"Quand dans un ingrat instrument,
On sait, ainsi que lui, faire passer son âme,
Pourquoi presser si fortement
La pédale de la réclame"

(litteral translation) "When, in a thankless instrument,
we can, as he does, transmit our soul,
Why push so strongly
The pedal of advertising "


1. First illustration extracted from the article-book from Francisco Curt Lange "Vida Y muerte de Louis Moreau Gottschalk en Rio de Janeiro", 1950.

2. The colored original illustration was obtained from the digital archives of the periodic Ba-Ta-Clan, available on the website of Brazil national library.
This periodic, written in french and with a rare freedom of tone, used to have a color front-page illustration, the other pages and illustrations being in Black and White.