[GAMES] - Lot 122

[GAMES] Anti-boulanger goose game. [S.l.: L. Gilbert, 1889]. - 255 x 350. Very rare anti-baker goose game . On April 1, 1889, General Boulanger, on the sly, took the train to Brussels with his mistress Madame Marguerite de Bonnemains. He had learned that the order for his arrest was going to be promulgated the following day or days. On 30 March, the newspaper Le Figaro, one of the many pro-boulanger newspapers, had published a supplement that could not be sold separately: a game of goose. There was a counterpart: a few days later an anti-boulangist goose game was printed. We had learned that the general had fled to Belgium. It is this anti-baker goose game that we present here. Printed in colour, it is divided into two head-to-toe parts, one representing the "Boulangist Camp" and the other the "Parliamentary Camp". The medallion in the centre bears the inscription "Butter Plate 32". Our copy does not bear the name of the publisher or printer. Another copy of this set was part of the collection of Pierre Dietsch (who died in 1999), acquired by the Rambouillet Museum in 2008; it bears in small print the indication: "L. Gilbert éditeur, F. Soisson imprimeur". Research by the BNF and the École nationale des chartes enabled us to locate the printer, but we were unable to locate the Parisian publisher. It is assumed that our copy has been slightly trimmed to fit into a frame, hence the disappearance of the two names. The central indication "l'Assiette au beurre" obviously has nothing to do with the magazine of the same name since the first issue of the latter dates from April 4, 1901. The mistake was made in particular by Alain René Girard and Claude Quétel in the book entitled L'Histoire de France racontée par le jeu de l'oie (Balland-Massin 1982, page 125), citing the magazine as the publisher of this booklet . Exceptional piece. One joins: - a business card of the gener