Jeu de la casserole. - Renouvelé des Grecs et du Jeu d'Oie

André Denys | Paris 1905 | folded: 23.7 x 19 cm / unfolded: 69.9 x 55 cm | one single folded sheet under illustrated cover

Colour lithograph by the caricaturist Bruno, under a cover reproducing the central illustration of the poster, printed on a large fold-out leaf.
Some minor foxing on the margin of the cover.
he «Jeu de la casserole» is an anti-Masonry and anti-Semitic game with thirty-three squares, illustrated with caricatures, that went on sale in 1905. The titles draws its inspiration from the
«affaire des casseroles» also known as the «affaire des fiches,» a political and religious surveillance operation of anti-republican officers that took place between 1900 and 1904, in the midst of the Dreyfus Affaire.
he central character is the president of the Council, Émile Combes, a freemason and inspirer of the 1905 law (on the separation of the Church and the State). His government saw a scandal caused by this surveillance that was made possible thanks to the information transmitted by the freemasons to General André, the Minister of War. Following this affair, Combes' government had to resign in January 1905.
Very beautiful copy of this poster, rare with its original cover, testimony to the violent anti-Semitism that was increased by the Dreyfus Affair.