ANONYMOUS. - La Crise salutaire.

In this` fine French caricature we see Napoleon seated in side profile to the left on an ornate chair-commode, clasping his knees, benign forward to vomit into a bowl held by a large doctor (larger in scale than his patient).
The doctor wears a long black gown and a centre- parted wig, which frames his face - he looks fixedly over Napoleon's head with a sly smile. In his left hand he holds on a salver and a bottle marked 'potion suivant l'ordon' (potion according to order) .
The chair and the doctor are on a small rectangular dais of four steps. On and beside the dais are rolled documents; two maps, one of France showing the Mediterranean, the other the Ocean; the other two which are completely rolled up are Suisse and Moscow. The ornate chair has a large "N" surmounted by an owl. It is not patterned by bees but by drops of blood (or tears), and is topped by a crown formed of bones and skulls, at the apex is a larger skull.

Beneath the caricature is French text, which roughly translates as follows: Buonaparte "Doctor, see what condition I am in , I took blood baths, did mass lifting and nothing worked for me….which regime should I follow? Still the current one isn't it?!" />Doctor "No, ….you must go back to the old regime."
Buonaparte "Please give me some conscripts, you will save me."
Doctor "You will save yourself without it , you took too much. Evacuating is your last resource!"
Buonaparte "I'm only evacuating from Moscow to Paris!"
Doctor So much the better, we have to give something back."