A French serio-comic map of Europe for the Great War

A scarce caricature map of Europe as the First World War raged across the continent. The countries are represented by stereotypes, names in the 26-point key underneath. The main characters are France, depicted as Marianne riding a giant cockerel, stabbing Germany, a raging bull, in the head; Russia as Tsar Nicholas II, standing looking haughty with his crown on his head, goading Germany, egged on by Mother Russia; Austria is a graveyard with a fallen crown; and Britain is a battleship, being the master of the sea. This new edition has been updated from the first issue: Italy has changed from a man playing a lute to a soldier with his rifle, as Italy abandoned its neutrality; and, replacing the original key, Turkey is a now man in a fez before the Hagia Sophia, killing women with a scimitar, probably a reference to the Armenian Genocide, as Armenia is depicted as a beautiful young woman just to the right.