The terrible director, from 'The difficult moments in life,' published in Le Charivari, April 2, 1864

Honoré Daumier French
Printer Destouches French
Publisher Aaron Martinet French

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- Indeed! You are telling me that you missed today's rehearsal because you had to set leeches onto your mother?
- Yes sir.
- But, when you first came here three months ago, you told me that you were an orphan. This is the first time in my long career at the theater that I have met a person who sets leeches on the body of a dead person.

The terrible director, from 'The difficult moments in life,' published in Le Charivari, April 2, 1864, Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois), Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

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