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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

"- How are you feeling today, Mr. Chapolard? - Madame Pochet, a concierge who knows how to behave, should address her landlord only in the third person. - How can I talk to you in the third person, since you are the first person I am seeing this morning," plate 11 from Croquis Parisiens

1852
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
25.9 × 21.5 cm (10.2 × 8.5 in)

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