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This is primarily a **book advertisement**, not a political cartoon. It promotes an eleven-volume set of purported court memoirs, using sensationalized historical narratives to attract readers. The featured subject is **Jeanne Vaubernier (Madame du Barry)**, mistress of King Louis XV of France, presented as a "one-time peasant girl" who manipulated the "weak" king and became France's true ruler through "beauty and wonderful charm." The ad emphasizes scandal and intrigue—her "swift descent to the bloody grave" during the Revolution. The appeal to Judge's 1920s readers was escapist: exotic court intrigue, "unbridled passions," and behind-the-scenes "invisible government" secrets. The framing suggests these memoirs reveal hidden historical causes through intimate revelations from the powerful themselves. This reflects period taste for sensationalized history marketed as forbidden insider knowledge—mixing class aspiration with gossip.

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Money, lust of power, jealousy and hate— It was to such agencies as these, and her beauty and wonderful charm, that Jeanne Vaubernier, a child of the provinces, and later a leader in the gay life of Paris, owed her ele- vation to the position of ‘‘Left-Hand Queen of France.’’ Read her own story of how the one-time peasant girl schemed and won her way to the heart of the King of France---how she swayed the mind of the weak Louis XV and became the real ruler of France---as she tells it in ns PERMIT ME, MADAME LA COMTESSE The Memoirs and Secret Chronicles of th Courts of Europe But this is only one of hundreds of narratives—equally as dramatic—equally as interesting—contained in the eleven sumptuous volumes that make up this set, a limited number of which war conditions in the trade have made it possible for us to secure at our own figure and offer to readers of Judge at An Extraordinary Bargain Price Our former offer is now supplemented by this, on easier terms, as we have bought up the only remaining stock of this work in existence—less than 400 sets—BUT we can offer readers of Judge JUST THIS ONE OPPORTUNITY to secure these wonderful books AT THIS PRICE AND ON EASY TERMS. Discriminating book-buyers are not going tc let these sets remain long on our shelves at this price and these terms, for bear in mind These ARE NOT the Ordinary Subscription Books You Are Familiar With THE PUBLISHER'S price of these eleven volumes THE TYPE—specially cast for edition—is bold and ‘was $50.00, and they are sterling examples of the easy to read. highest craftsmanship in bookmaking. pag! ale THE ILLUSTRATIONS are in photogravure on 4 a_silk-finished buckram ‘The size of the volume inches wide bj inches high, The set contains Imperial'Japan Vellum. 4,546 pages. These Eleven Volumes Sparkle With Life— A life that transcends the imagination of a workaday world—the extravagant, luxurious life of courts, the life of camps amid all the pomp and circumstance of war—even the gay life of the Pare-Aux-Serfs—all told in stories as comic, tragic, mean, strange as any ever told in the pages of fiction—stories tingling with the electric currents of unbridled passions, stories of men and ‘women whose names are written large in the pages of history, and that show as no others do Fhe HIDDEN CAUSES of Great Historical Events For in these volumes kings, queens, courtiers and favorites—with no thought of publication— set forth the secrets of their lives, and show the hidden causes found behind almost every event of historical importance—the hidden agents that made up the “invisible government.” A. PETTICOAT DYNASTY—We watch this “in- the enamored Louis by a thousand playful capers and visible government” making history at the court of impudent tricks, We see in these memoirs the hid- Logis XV. in the person of La Du Barry. We see her den court life of old Fi ind the secret causes of ing over little rs_in the king’s private her swift descent to the apartments, or in Cou of State, perched on the Revolution along a pathway strewn with arm of the monarch’s chair, distracting the mind of bandboxes and rouge-pots. Stripped of Their Gilt and Tinsel these representatives of Earth’s power and grandeur stand revealed in these wonderful ges as flesh and blood men and women, as they tell of their cherished ambitions and secret loves and hates, But to get all this wonderful lore of a life so full of strong contrasts—heights of heroism and depths of folly—so rich in all the elements of romance You Must Be Prumpt—Send Coupon To-day Remember there are over 500,000 Readers of Judge and less than 400 of | these Sets (the only sets of this edition in existence) and that the Price is less than one-quarter of the Publisher’s price, and easy terms of payment —and money back ff not satisfied. Titles of These Eleven Sumptuoy Volumes and a Partial List o Historical Characters Vol. I.— Memoirs and Confessions of Comtem) Barry, With Intimate Details of Her Entire (ae as Favorite of Louis XV. Jean Jacques Rousscau—Voltaire — Maréchal De Richelierte Veter of Russia—Duc De Choiseul—The Rohans. Vols. 11, III, IV.—Memoirs of the Court of Louis and the Regency. By the DUC DE SAINT SIMON Cardinal Richeliew—Madame De Maintenon—Ninon De Lae La Valliere—Madame De Montespan—A bbe Fénelon. Vol. V.—Seecret Memoirs of the Royal Family of Frax By PRID Friend and Confidai Maria Theresa — La Fayette — R Necker—Pope Pius VI. Vols. VI, VIL, VIII.—Memoirs of Napoleon, as Selé:| Emperor, Husband. By MADAME JUNOT Empress Josephine — Fouché—Marshal Murat—Talleyrand-Qe Hortense—Emperor Alexander. Vol. IX.—Seeret Memoirs of the Court of Berlin. By COMTE DE MIRABEAU Frederick the Great—Empress Catherine Il.—The Duke of wick—Mademoiselle Voss—Goertz—Prince Potemkin. Vols. X, XL—Memotrs of the Courts of Charles |i Charles II, and the Protectorate. The Diary of JOHN EVELYN Oliver Cromwell—Nell Gwynn—Duchess of Port —Duke of Mariborough—Colonel Blood—Prince BRUNSWICK SUBSCRIPTION Co. “s ‘obespierre — Madame Camm prepaid. 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