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Louis Désiré Véron and Bernard-Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac dissect Adolphe Thiers; symbolising the ousting of Thiers from the editorship of the Constitutionnel, the paper bought by Véron. Wood engraving by Dumont after A. Bertall, 1851. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Véron is identifiable by the large collar with which he conceals the terrible rash on his neck. He was a wealthy anti-Republican newspaper proprietor who owned L'Epoque and bought Le Constitutionnel in 1844. In 1851 he had hired a journalist called Granier de Cassagnac to back Napoléon in the elections and consequently, according to Irene Collins, The government and the newspaper press in France 1814-1881, Oxford, 1959, "got rid of his obligations to [Adolphe] Thiers [one of the leading liberals of the July Monarchy and editor of Le Constitutionnel] by paying back the 100,000 francs which the latter had invested in the paper and allowed Cassagnac to take over the chief political columns" (p. 113)
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