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Cartoonist

(7,579 posts) Wed Mar 6, 2019, 09:45 AM Mar 2019

Les Reliques

Sorry, I have no idea what this is about. It's from a book of drawings, sans text.

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It's a Catholic thing. Act_of_Reparation Mar 2019 #1

Yeah, but Cartoonist Mar 2019 #2

The artist is JJ Grandville. Act_of_Reparation Mar 2019 #3

Calisse!! guillaumeb Mar 2019 #4

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)

1. It's a Catholic thing.

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Wed Mar 6, 2019, 09:50 AM

Mar 2019

It's tradition for Catholic churches to house relics of the saints for which they are named. In ye olde times, these relics were often bones.

Cartoonist

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2. Yeah, but

Reply to Act_of_Reparation (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 6, 2019, 10:11 AM

Mar 2019

There's a story behind this particular illustration. The tongue suggests irreverence.

Act_of_Reparation

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3. The artist is JJ Grandville.

Reply to Cartoonist (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 6, 2019, 10:20 AM

Mar 2019

A noted satirist. Whatever the specific meaning of the illustration, it is likely mocking in tone.

guillaumeb

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4. Calisse!!

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Wed Mar 6, 2019, 07:41 PM

Mar 2019

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