“Ça Porte toujours bonheur,” (It Always Brings Good Luck)

“Ça Porte toujours bonheur,” (It Always Brings Good Luck)

Musée des Horreurs, no.25, c.1899-1900

Alphonse Rothschild’s son and recipient of the Legion of Honor for his bravery in battle, Baron Henri de Rothschild is here depicted as a parasitical fly or cockroach emerging from a latrine, a sign of infestation and surely not a sign of luck.

V. Lenepveu