Your Money or Your Life

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Your money or your life!

Artist

Name:: Traviès de Villers, Charles-Joseph
Dates:: 1804-1859
Countries:: France, Switzerland

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Lavoignat, Hippolyte
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: University of Illinois Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Les mystères de Paris, vol. 1
Author:: Süe, Eugène
Publisher:: Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1843
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Description:

A scared bourgeois is being mugged by a gang of three, consisting of two men and an old woman.
The caption reads in the original French: La bourse ou la vie !

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