“- Please no exaggerations in this article which goes to all the newspapers. Write only that our pupil Greluchot has received fourteen prizes and that there is no doubt that the Institute Bilboquet is the finest in all of Paris!,” plate 27 from Professeurs Et Moutards 1846

This lithograph, plate 27 from Honoré Daumier's series “Professeurs Et Moutards” (1846), satirizes educational practices in 19th-century France. The scene depicts a teacher, likely from the prestigious Bilboquet Institute, demanding a student, Greluchot, to pose for a flattering press photograph. The teacher instructs the journalist to only report Greluchot's fourteen prizes and proclaim Bilboquet the finest in Paris. This cartoon critiques the inflated ego of educators and the emphasis on superficial accolades over true learning.