PC_FrWWI_0131

PC_FrWWI_0131

Early French political cartoon/caricature postcard depicting President of France, Émile Loubet, as a charmer of birds.

Émile François Loubet (1838-1929) was President of France from 1899 to 1906.  According to his obituary in the New York Times in December 1929, he was known as a “conciliator" and an "apostle of peace.”  

PC FrWWI 0131 - Version 2

The “birds” in the cartoon appear to be (clockwise from top left) : 

(1) King Alfonso XIII of Spain 

(2) King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy 

(3) Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany

(4) Tsar Nicholas II of Russia

(5) King Edward VII

(6) Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire

(7) US President Theodore Roosevelt

(8) King Carlos I of Portugal

(9) King Leopold II of Belgium  

I cannot identify the “birds" on the tree above Kaiser Wilhelm - one with a képi, the other in black face.