Miss Etienne-Mona-Lisa-Cunégonde-Silly Goose of the Constitutionnel, indignate, choking and over-ornate at the performance of Anthony in which the mischievous Dumas had the indecency of scoffing at the noble family Silly Goose of the Constitutionnel..., p

Here Daumier targeted the bourgeois newspaper Le Constitutionnel, a mouthpiece for the monarch run by Louis Philippe’s deputy Charles-Guillaume Étienne. The paper is portrayed as a corpulent woman with a gourd-like head and a face belonging to Étienne. Pear-shaped globules hang from her ears, and an imperialistic profile of Louis Philippe nestles between her ample breasts.