Le Père Duchêne is the title of a newspaper

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 which appeared during revolutionary periods of the nineteenth century. It borrowed its title from the original Père Duchesne

Le Père Duchesne

Le Père Duchesne was an extreme radical newspaper during the French Revolution, edited by Jacques Hébert, who published 385 issues from September 1790 until eleven days before his death by guillotine, which took place on March 24, 1794...

 published by Jacques Hébert

Jacques Hébert

Jacques René Hébert was a French journalist, and the founder and editor of the extreme radical newspaper Le Père Duchesne during the French Revolution...

 during the French Revolution

French Revolution

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. After Hébert's death, the title reappeared with all sorts of variations (Old Lady Duchesne, Son of Père Duchêne, etc.) from the 1790s on, notably during the Revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune

Paris Commune

The Paris Commune was a government that briefly ruled Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871. It existed before the split between anarchists and Marxists had taken place, and it is hailed by both groups as the first assumption of power by the working class during the Industrial Revolution...

 of 1871 (in editions by publishers Eugène Vermersch, Maxime Vuillaume, and Alphonse Humbert).

The Cover of Son of the Illustrious Père Duchêne

Ten issues appeared as an under the title The Illustrious Son of Père Duchêne [tr. note: this can also be translated as Illustrated Son of Père Duchêne, which was an intentional pun], from April 21 through to May 24, 1871 (descriptions below). The collection was able to illustrate the most striking events of the Commune; its last issue appeared during the Commune's end on the "Bloody Week" (Semaine sanglante) - strikingly, even the very end of the Paris government is depicted in the magazine's last issue.

N°	Republican Date	Gregorian Date	Title	Description	Legend
	1st Floréal Floréal For the ship class, see Floréal class frigateFloréal was the eighth month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word flos, which means flowering....  79	April 21, 1871	The Vendôme Column	Père Duchesne facing the statue of Napoléon Bonaparte at the top of the Vendôme Column	Sooo! you dirty bugger, you're gonna get screwed down there like that scumbag nephew of yours [i.e.: Napoleon III of France Napoleon III of France Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte was the President of the French Second Republic and as Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire. He was the nephew and heir of Napoleon I, christened as Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte... ]!...
	6 Floréal Floréal For the ship class, see Floréal class frigateFloréal was the eighth month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word flos, which means flowering....  79	April 26, 1871	LittleThiers Adolphe Thiers Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French politician and historian. was a prime minister under King Louis-Philippe of France. Following the overthrow of the Second Empire he again came to prominence as the French leader who suppressed the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871...	The Commune [tr. note: personified as the French national symbol, Marianne Marianne Marianne is a national emblem of France and an allegory of Liberty and Reason. She represents the state and values of France, differently from another French cultural symbol, the "Coq Gaulois" which represents France as a nation and its history, land, culture, and variety of sport disciplines in... ] holding Thiers in the form of a sickly newborn	And to think anyone would want to force me to recognize that son of a bitch!...
	10 Floréal Floréal For the ship class, see Floréal class frigateFloréal was the eighth month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word flos, which means flowering....  79	April 30, 1871	General Dombrowski (Jarosław Dąbrowski)	Dombrowski, saber in hand, routing the people of Versailles Versailles Versailles , a city renowned for its château, the Palace of Versailles, was the de facto capital of the kingdom of France for over a century, from 1682 to 1789. It is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and remains an important administrative and judicial centre...	A good guy!... God!...
	13 Floréal Floréal For the ship class, see Floréal class frigateFloréal was the eighth month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word flos, which means flowering....  79	May 3, 1871	The dictator Thiers Adolphe Thiers Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French politician and historian. was a prime minister under King Louis-Philippe of France. Following the overthrow of the Second Empire he again came to prominence as the French leader who suppressed the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871...	Thiers mounted on a snail on the way to Paris	Forward!.. fuck of a fuck!...and watch out for Parisians!...
	17 Floréal Floréal For the ship class, see Floréal class frigateFloréal was the eighth month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word flos, which means flowering....  79	May 7, 1871	Political puppets	The Commune [Marianne] and Thiers Adolphe Thiers Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French politician and historian. was a prime minister under King Louis-Philippe of France. Following the overthrow of the Second Empire he again came to prominence as the French leader who suppressed the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871...  hiding a box of Cayenne pepper Cayenne pepper The cayenne pepper—also known as the Guinea spice,cow-horn pepper, aleva, bird pepper,or, especially in its powdered form, red pepper—is a red, hot chili pepper used to flavor dishes and for medicinal purposes. Named for the city of Cayenne in French Guiana, it is a cultivar of Capsicum annuum...  (as puppets)	You expect me to put down my stick ... Have you finished ! First, show me what you're hiding behind your back, little fella!.... [pun on Foutriquet, sobriquet for Thiers Thiers Thiers is a French surname. Notable persons with the surname include:*Adolphe Thiers , French statesman and historian*Louisa Thiers , American supercentenarian*Harry D...  ]
	20 Floréal Floréal For the ship class, see Floréal class frigateFloréal was the eighth month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word flos, which means flowering....  79	May 10, 1871	Political puppets	General Vinoy Joseph Vinoy Joseph Vinoy was a French soldier.-Biography:He originally intended to join the Church, but, after some years at a seminary, he decided upon a military career and joined the French army in 1823. As a sergeant in the 14th line infantry, he took part in the Algerian expedition of 1830...  brandishing his big stick over the Commune [Marianne] lying on the ground, breasts bared (as puppets)	The dream of that big jackass, Vinoy.
	24 Floréal Floréal For the ship class, see Floréal class frigateFloréal was the eighth month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word flos, which means flowering....  79	May 14, 1871	Citizen Courbet Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement , with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists...	Gustave Courbet Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement , with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists...  bowling over a Morris column Morris column Advertising columns or morris columns are cylindrical outdoor sidewalk structures with a characteristic style that are used for advertising and other purposes. They are common in the city of Berlin, Germany, where the first 100 columns were installed in 1855. Advertising columns were invented by...	Knocking down all the columns... of Paris
	27 Floréal Floréal For the ship class, see Floréal class frigateFloréal was the eighth month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word flos, which means flowering....  79	May 17, 1871	The dream of Badinguet (Napoleon III)	Napoléon III as a bat, comparing the weights of Thiers and of the Republic	For governing, always rabid, Here's my plan: - it's splendid! - I will make both of them fight each other, I am waiting for them to eat each other And when Death has emptied it I will return to Paris..., if I WANT TO !                 Napoleon III. Before this cowardly and stupid plan Each of us, with gusto, To this bald monster...smile! [tr.: pun on bat]
	1st Prairial Prairial Prairial was the ninth month in the French Republican Calendar. This month was named after the French word prairie, which means meadow. It was the name given to several ships....  79	May 21, 1871	Identity cards	A young woman facing Mr. Prudhomme (a bourgeois type) [tr.: "prudent man"], who has the newspaper 'le père Duchêne' in his hand, wearing a sign around his neck reading : J. PRUDHOMME Description Nose ... ey Parker [tr: actually a similar French pun for "nose" and "merchant"] Eyes ... of a partridge Mouth ... shut [tr: similar French pun for "mouth" and "stop-gap"] Veterans battalion.	- Well, my dear Joseph, you've bitched so much about those little boulevard-women, and here you are then, just like them!... They've wasted a card on you too. - It's not the same thing, miss, mine is a civic-minded ("civisme") card and yours is a cynical card ("cynisme")!...
	4 Prairial Prairial Prairial was the ninth month in the French Republican Calendar. This month was named after the French word prairie, which means meadow. It was the name given to several ships....  79	May 24, 1871	Departure from our good ol' Commune	The Son of Duchesne, dressed as a Fédéré Fédéré The term "fédérés" most commonly refers to the troops who volunteered for the French National Guard in the summer of 1792 during the French Revolution... , with the Commune (as Marianne) who is packing her suitcase. (During "Bloody Week")	- Well! My dear Commune, what is it you're screwin' around with there?... - Holy Mother! My cute little Duchêne, I'm packing my trunks...since Mr. Thiers has been screwing me for the past eight days. Only, as you see, I'm not hurrying too much.