An Antisemitic Poster Depicting the Murder of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Republic ...

An Antisemitic Poster Depicting the Murder of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Republic Due to the 'Wandering Jew'

HORRIBLE ASSASSINAT DU PRESIDENT DE LA REPUBLIQUE SADI CARNOT AIR DU JUIF ERRANT [The terrible assassination of the President of the Republic Marie François Sadi Carnot caused by the wandering Jew]. France, late 19th century. 

Marie François Sadi Carnot [1837-1894] was the President of France during the Third Republic and was murdered during his term of office. After serving in various public positions, he was chosen as President of France in 1887. During his time as President, France dealt with difficult crises which threatened to annul parliamentary rule and replace it with an authoritarian regime, the"Panama Scandal" affair in 1892 in which it was revealed that the Panama Canal company paid French politicians and others. The French media blamed the Jews for the crisis, emphasizing the role of the Jews in the affair who were interested parties. At the height of these crises in June 1894, after President Carnot finished a speech in Lyon he was stabbed by an Italian anarchist by the name of Sante Caserio and died of his wounds a few hours later. 

The poster before us seems to have printed a short time after his assassination. It is essentially an elegy describing the plan of the assassination and its execution in great detail [with the assassin's name Caserio Gibni appearing several times and highlighted in one of the verses], as well as the vacuum left behind and the heavy mourning for the death of the president of the Republic. The writer blames the 'wandering Jew' for the hard consequences for the French Republic without explaining their direct part in the murder . At the end of the elegy the writer added a verse in which he writes a brief biography of President Sadi Carnot. 

Size: 40x28 cm. Stains. Folding marks. 

Fine condition.