Jaloux de leurs plaisir, épiant chaque geste. Meisseurs dit Lucifer, après vous s'il en rest

In this satire, Napoleon is transformed into a shuttlecock and takes center stage in a game of badminton. Two miliary officers representing Austria (? left) and Britain (? right) volley Napoleon's diminutative figure high into the air. Lucifer, the devil, emerges from the ground between the two soldiers. Reaching up from his ring of flames, he raises his hand as if begging for the players' attention, or in an attempt to grasp Napoleon. As the caption implies, the devil is waiting his turn at Napoleon--that is, if there is anything left to him after the Allies' game is through. The British Museum lists the two soldiers as Blucher and Wellington In this satire, Napoleon is transformed into a shuttlecock and takes center stage in a game of badminton. Two miliary officers representing Austria (? left) and Britain (? right) volley Napoleon's diminutative figure high into the air. Lucifer, the devil, emerges from the ground between the two soldiers. Reaching up from his ring of flames, he raises his hand as if begging for the players' attention, or in an attempt to grasp Napoleon. As the caption implies, the devil is waiting his turn at Napoleon--that is, if there is anything left to him after the Allies' game is through. The British Museum lists the two soldiers as Blucher and Wellington This sheet is not signed or dated. Clerc dates the appearance of the sheet to April 2, 1814, and further notes that this image is a copy of a satire printed in England. The British Museum suggests the print was published in France in the summer of 1814 but that the idea came from a caricature by George Cruikshank entitled 'The Corsican Shuttlecock' published on 10 April 1814.