What are you doing then? Abbot? Sire, I do as you do, I burn the colonial goods., Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, 1834
Plate no 8, napoleon in conversation with a cleric who is burning items; in a garden outside a church; when asked what he is doing, the cleric replies "i am like you sire, i am burning colonial foodstuffs" 1834
lithograph. Date: 1834. Dimensions: Height: 115 mm (image); Height: 181 mm (sheet); Width: 137 mm; Width: 182 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French. Collection: British Museum. Que faites-vous donc? l'abbé? Sire, je fais comme vous, je brûle les denrées coloniales (BM 1868,0612.1496)