French presidential election 2012 will kick off next Sunday... I'd love to see Messrs Sarkozy, Hollande, Bayrou, Melanchon competing in a rugby game... and scrummaging to determine who deserves to be the captain of the team for the next five years...
That's exactly the concept of this serie of three French illustrated postcards (by artist T.Blanco) about the 1906 presidential election...
Title reads (in French) "Presidential Football in Versailles", as Versailles (see the Chateau in the background) is the city where congressmen were gathered to elect a President (no universal suffrage in these years...)
"Before" (above) shows President Emile Loubet (president 1899-1906), holding the ball... passing to candidates Armand Fallières (the fat gentleman in red), Paul Doumer (wearing black beard and yellow jersey... future president in 1931) etc... (actually, I can't recognize the others...)
The second card, captioned "During" shows a wild scrummage... and candidate Armand Fallières getting control of the (presidential...) ball...
Third card reads "After - Mr Fallières' triumph"... and is self explanatory!
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