Mon vélocipède! (My bicycle!), from the series Les Actualités

A woman representing Peace is riding a bicycle with a cannon strapped to its frame. Daumier expressed in his prints from this time a growing sense of foreboding about Prussian militarism, sounding the alarm about the inevitability of a Franco-Prussian War. Daumier’s fears were well founded. In 1870, Prussia invaded France, setting off a brief but devastating war that would leave France humiliated, amputated of the key border provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, and embroiled in the bloody civil war of the Paris Commune.