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The Human Comedy: Chronicles of 19th-Century France

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Enfer et damnation!

Enfer et damnation!

Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) Enfer et damnation! .... sifflée ! ... siflée !... Siiiiflée ! [Hell and damnation!... hissed!... hissed!... Hissssed! ...], 1844 Lithograph Gift of Frederick B. Artz, 1937.33

This bluestocking is livid because an audience has just hissed during a performance of her play. The female author is often depicted as mannish and ugly. Her intellectual output is just as deformed as her physique.