A coloured etching, credited to “B. D.”, depicting Mercury dying from cholera, surrounded by ministers: a representation of the French economy’s poor health, ca. 1832.
Featured on PDR in the essay Laughter in the Time of Cholera
Political instability, popular unrest, and an impending pandemic? Welcome to France in the early 1830s. Vlad Solomon explores what made Parisians laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play.
Also appearing in the essay…
Trade Attacked by Cholera Morbus and Treated by the Ministry.
Date
ca. 1832
