Dear Homeland

All Resolutions

How Dear Is Homeland to Every Noble Heart!
"Farewell, country of the arts and phosphoric lighters... Farewell, ungrateful land which drives its children out and banishes and persecutes them... farewell!! I'll take my home, my business, and my capital elsewhere. But I leave my heart with you. Be sure not to lose it."

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Artist

Name:
Daumier, Honoré
Dates:
1808-1879
Country:
France

Illustration

Subject:
Humor
Technique:
Lithograph
Format:
Portrait (taller)
Source:
The Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:
Les cent et un Robert-Macaire
Authors:
Alhoy, Maurice; Huart, Louis
Publisher:
Paris: Aubert et Cie, 1839
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Description:

As two men carry bags of money past a French border sign, one of them stops to turn around and wave goodbye. The caption reads in the original French:

A tous les cœurs bien nés que la patrie est chère !!…
— Adieu pays des arts et des briquets phosphoriques… Adieu terre ingrate qui chasse tes enfans, qui les exile, qui les persécute… Adieu !!… Je porte ailleurs mes pénates, mon industrie et mes capitaux. Mais je te laisse mon cœur… Prends garde de le perdre…

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