Demand Thy Life Size:S: 36 x 28cm Above and below the central

Above and below the central device reads the inscription T Salmon

on his hands and knees

was subjected to both bad weather and inevitable derision

Alderman Arthur Waugh

Demand Thy Life Size:S: 36 x 28cm Above and below the centralDemand Thy Life, 1870. France is defiant under the attack of Wilhelm I of Prussia. France was on the verge of complete defeat in the war she had declared against Prussia. This cartoon accompanies a long poem in which Punch itemises how France has been betrayed by her Emperor, her Ministers, her publicists, her orators, her journalists and her army. From Punch, or the London Charivari, November 12, 1870.