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'Little Gulliver', 1873. Gulliver exclaims Make your Game, my Little Men! It Amuses you, and it won't Hinder me In the guise of Gulliver, this shows the first president of France's Third Republic, Louis Adolphe Thiers. He was continually battling to control the different factions of French activists. There were the monarchists, the Red Republicans, the Orleanists, amongst others. This cartoon shows how he and his government were trying to carry on normal business whilst dealing with vociferous and active opposition from all these factions as well as the press. From Punch, or the London Charivari, February 1, 1873.