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 The great graphic satirist, Honore Daumier depicted Louis Philippe, the 
        Citizen King, as a pear - not only in the structure of the head, but also 
        the whole body. Even when the image was banned by the censor, the pear 
        would appear at a distance from a resemblance to Louis Philippe, but the 
        reading public knew the formula and made the links.
 
 
 01 masks of 1831 - Leading Politicians.
 
 
 02 Honore Daumier Past Present Future litho., January 1834
 
 
 03 Gargantua litho1831 - his depiction of Louis Philippe as the feeding 
        Gargantua (after Rabelais)
   Daumier's 
        charcaterisation of the Ruler resulted in imprisonment from September 
        1832 to January 1833. 
 
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