Plate 35: Robert Macaire schismatic, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

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- True, true, let me tell you, Bertrand, the time of the limited partnership shall pass but the strollers shall never pass. Let us concern ourselves with the eternal... What if we start a religion? Eh!
- A religion, by devil, that's not easy to do!
- You're always so stupid, Bertrand! I am proclaiming myself Pope, we rent a shop, we borrow some chairs and we write some sermons on the death of Napoleon, on the discovery of America, on Molière, on whatever! That's a religion, it's no more difficult than that.

Plate 35: Robert Macaire schismatic, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires, Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois), Color lithograph on wove paper; second state of two (Delteil)

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