Old Creil Montereau plate featuring one of Beranger's songs. Here, it is the Song of the Old Sergeant Palmette of large vine garland. Dimension: 21.5cm Condition: the plate is complete with patina of time and scratches. Very pretty old plate of 200 years!!! It was in 1828, the year when the popular repercussions of the trial of the songbook and the abundant iconography to which Béranger's second stay in prison gave rise that the publishers decided to illustrate his Songs. Near the spinning wheel of his beloved daughter The old sergeant distracts himself from his troubles, And, with a hand that the bullet has bruised, Laughingly rocks two twin grandsons. Sitting quietly on the threshold of the rustic roof, His only refuge after so many fights, He sometimes says: "It is not everything to be born; "God, my children, gives you a beautiful death!"