The Bourgeois Scarecrow

Cartoon showing a scarecrow supported by a stake and wearing a police uniform, complete with a saber and gun attached to the extremities of its "arms." Its face, topped by a bicorne, is drawn in the likeness of Jean Casimir-Perier, then president of the council, and portrayed here guarding a large pile of gold coins against an incensed crowd gathered in the background.

In his illustrations for Le chambard socialiste, Steinlein used the alias Petit Pierre, thus playing on his name, which, in German, means "little stone."

The headline reads in the original French: L'Épouvantail Bourgeois, and the caption: Casimir-Pandore : Ah ! c'est un métier difficile, garantir la propriété !