http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb32888964b/date.r=Le+Vie+en+Culotte+Rouge.langFR
".....profusely illustrated" as they used to say. Covers were originally in color. I don't read French but you can get the humor of the cartoons which seem to involve French Officers, fully dressed interacting with women not fully dressed. The point of some of the Humor was that French Soldiers always get the girl over civilians. BE SURE to click on the pictures for large versions
There's the usual Theatre dressing room theme...
The woman's apartment theme....
The Third is the outside for no reason theme.
You may have noticed the large FANNIES on the women in the images. The ideal was for curvier women and they may have been drawn the way. BUT the illustrations may be showing the chemise material filling out the seat of the drawers.
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