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Updated: May 17, 2025
Ratapoil was an evocation of the same general character, but with a difference of nuance the ragged political bully, or hand-to-mouth demagogue, with the smashed tall hat, cocked to one side, the absence of linen, the club half-way up his sleeve, the swagger and pose of being gallant for the people.
Ratapoil abounds in the promiscuous drawings that I have looked over, and is always very strong and living, with a considerable element of the sinister, so often in Daumier an accompaniment of the comic.
The law of the 31st May is abrogated 'Well done! Universal suffrage is re-established 'Also well done! The reactionary majority has been driven away 'Admirable! Thiers is arrested 'Capital! Changarnier is seized 'Bravo! Round each placard there are claqueurs. Ratapoil explains his coup d'état to Jacques Bonhomme, Jacques Bonhomme takes it all in.
He invented Ratapoil as he appropriated Robert Macaire, and as a caricaturist he never fails to put into circulation, when he can, a character to whom he may attribute as many as possible of the affectations or the vices of the day.
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