In the canteen of a federal shooting society, a speaker stands on a platform. The assembly applauds him right after he utters, with a booming voice, the word “Confederation”. The speaker raises his glass and drinks to the success of his “recipe” for a political speech.

Shadow theatre

Not specified

Switzerland

Geneva

Printed

Rhetoric

Politics

Comical

Parodistic

Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Chansons romandes (front cover), circa 1910.