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Caricature of a seated man with a mustache and a woman in a yellow dress leaning toward him, on a Le Rire magazine cover.

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A caricature in the humorous illustrated weekly Le Rire, dated 21 December 1895, shows a man with a mustache seated while a woman in a voluminous yellow dress leans toward him. The cover is titled Le fiancé and signed by Jean-Louis Forain, with a printed caption in French beneath the drawing.

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1895

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