This is an oblong format of paperback, undated but measuring
29 x 35 cms, each picture faces a body of descriptive text. This is a hagiographical
work with overall satirical intent, and a full gallery of grotesques. He
plays knowingly with universally known icons of Napoleonism by Daivd and
Gros. The artist, better know as an illustrator of the erotic, creates this
believable naive style, close to the feeling and stylistic conventions of
the Images d'Epinal
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