Plate 44: Robert Macaire, Barrister, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

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- Gentlemen, the act in question is evidently worthless, besmirched by fraud and without legal status... (the president interrupts Maître Macaire)
- But you're making a mistake, you're pleading against your own side...
- (Robert, aside) It's true. By the devil, I got carried away.
- (aloud) There we are, that's what you were certainly going to say... but this act is certainly honest, legal and perfectly in order etc. etc. (he pleads for five hours without interruption and loses his case).

Plate 44: Robert Macaire, Barrister, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires, Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois), Lithograph on wove paper

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