Renewing The Lease Size:M: 50 x 40cm 'The Middlesex election'

'The Middlesex election'

This relates to the war that France declared on Prussia in July 1870

'Band Boxes'

Member of the Rock Group The Strangler

Renewing The Lease Size:M: 50 x 40cm 'The Middlesex election''Renewing The Lease', 1870. Madame La France, in the costume of the upper class matron, reads over some papers presented to her by Emperor Napoleon, here shown in the clogs and uniform of the working man. He is holding the hand of his young son. A recent plebiscitum had been issued by the Emperor. A plebiscitum would allow direct voting by the people to decide France's future. As his health failed, Napoleon's main aim was to secure his office for his