Haille, haille, il me brule les entrailles

This hand-colored etching depicts two men in violent physical conflict during the French Revolutionary period. The figure on the left, dressed in dark coat and breeches, clutches his stomach in apparent agony while the man in red—wearing a military jacket and cocked hat—strikes him forcefully. The French text translates roughly to accusations of burning entrails and promises of a "cure" through violence.

The print belongs to the European tradition of political satire inherited from Gillray and Rowlandson, where exaggerated physical caricature served partisan ends. Revolutionary-era French prints weaponized such imagery to mock opponents and justify brutal political action. The crude anatomical emphasis and grotesque expressions exemplify how caricature historically encoded class and political conflict through the body itself—a visual rhetoric that would eventually inform early comic strip conventions.