En los ríos, bajo la sombra de los árboles y al cobijo del quepis: representaciones gráficas del aseo y del descanso militar durante la Intervención Francesa en México
Journal: Letras Históricas
Year: 2024

This article examines some representations of military cleanliness and rest during the French Intervention in Mexico, based on the iconographic and icono-textual analysis of images and reports published in three of the most widely circulated French prints of the time: the illustrated weeklies “L'Illustration Journal Universel” and “Le Monde Illustré”, and the satirical newspaper “Le Charivari”. The two engravings and lithograph were compared with letters, memoirs, manuals, and journalistic piece