Copyright: Turandot.2005

ID: 443
Ressource_Provider: Enrico Sturani
Title: Cooking with datura
DocumentNature: Book illustration
Repository: Sturani
Color: Black and white
Caption: LA CUISINE AU DATURA
- Ce que ça va les faire gueuler à Paris!
- Ben, qu'ils viennent bouffer les soupes qu'on nous prépare…
(Cooking with datura
- what a row it's gonna make in Paris
-Well, just let them come and eat soups that are cooked for us...)

Particulars: This poster was inspired by some pictures taken during the execution of the culprits of the Poisoners' Affaire, August 8, 1908 in Tonkin. The caption alludes to the narcotic (datura) that Vietnamese cooks poured in French troops' soup, in order to stun them.
Topic: Decapitation 斬刑
Keyword: decapitation, poisoner, affaire, army, beheading

Bibliography
  1:Name: JOYEUX, A. La vie large des colonies
  2:Name: BERGOUGNIOU, Jean-Michel L'affaire des Empoisonneurs

Derniére modification le : 2005-11-30