Thiers et Barthélemy St Hilaire

Drawing of Adolphe Thiers walking down a road by a wall. Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire appears as his shadow on the wall.
Inscribed, lower left: 1876 Chateau des Tours.
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Signed, lower left: Bertall.
The drawing is accompanied by a short poem in French which translates into the following: "Thiers and Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire / Together they walk proudly, / Whether it is sunny or dark; / One is the shadow of Thiers / The other is a third of a shadow."
Title inscribed below image.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.55)
Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire, philosopher, statesman, journalist, and essayist, supported Thiers for the presidency of the Third Republic in 1871, after the fall of Louis Napoleon's empire in the Franco-Prussian War. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire was appointed Thiers' unpaid secretary while Thiers headed the new government. Thiers, the "third of a shadow", was a physically short person.