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Cartoonist

(7,316 posts) Wed Mar 6, 2019, 09:45 AM Mar 2019

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Les Reliques

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

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Les Reliques (Original Post) Cartoonist Mar 2019 OP

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

(7,316 posts)

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

(9,116 posts)

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

(42,641 posts)

4. Calisse!!

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Wed Mar 6, 2019, 07:41 PM

Mar 2019

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