Honoré Daumieri
Born Feb 26, 1808

The proof that a caricature could frighten a king. Daumier drew for Charles Philipon's La Caricature, and his drawing of Louis-Philippe as the gluttonous giant Gargantua so offended the king that Daumier was prosecuted and sentenced to six months in prison, which he began serving in August 1832.…

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