Jean Veber, Les Parisiens tirant le diable par la queue
Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Date: 1909 Technique: Unknown
In colloquial French, to pull the devil by the tail meant to work hard to get a living. /Michael Sonenscher, Work and Wages: Natural Law, Politics and the Eighteenth-Century French Trades, 42/
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