United States of Europe.- Daumier (Honore) Souvenirs du Congres de la Paix, set of 6 lithographed plates, signed in the stones, sheets 25.5 x 36 cm. (10 x 14 in.), letterpress text on versos occasionally showing through, light browning & marginal repair to plate 6, Paris, Le Charivari, 7-12 September 1849. ⁂ International delegates attending the two-day Paris peace congress convened by president-elect Victor Hugo and vice-president Richard Cobden included 300 from Great Britain, 230 from France, and 23 from the United States. Hugo's opening address calling for a United States of Europe to put an end to national belligerence through free trade was both prescient and premature but inspired widespread ridicule, as here, for its perceived utopianism.
United States of Europe.- Daumier (Honore) Souvenirs du Congres de la Paix, set of 6 lithographed plates, signed in the stones, sheets 25.5 x 36 cm. (10 x 14 in.), letterpress text on versos occasionally showing through, light browning & marginal repair to plate 6, Paris, Le Charivari, 7-12 September 1849. ⁂ International delegates attending the two-day Paris peace congress convened by president-elect Victor Hugo and vice-president Richard Cobden included 300 from Great Britain, 230 from France, and 23 from the United States. Hugo's opening address calling for a United States of Europe to put an end to national belligerence through free trade was both prescient and premature but inspired widespread ridicule, as here, for its perceived utopianism.
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