French generals retiring on account of their health : with Lepaux presiding in the directorial dispensary.

Print shows Larevellière-Lépeaux at his table in a gothic chair; five generals approach him from the right, two others are seated behind his chair. The doctor wears his official dress with feathered hat; a bonnet-rouge crowns the back of his chair, against which leans a book: 'Hortus Siccus' (Larevellière was a botanist). He holds up a retort in which a liquid explodes, so that tiny heads fly upwards. On his table are jars, bottles, and an open book: 'Mal de Naples sive Morbus Gallicus'. A mortar is inscribed 'Arch-Duke Boluses'. A jar is 'Preparation of Lead', a box is 'Lake's Pills'. A large jar of 'Esprit de Robespierre' contains a guillotine; a smaller one, a dagger. The five generals are in advanced stages of disease or decay. The foremost holds his hat; from his pocket issues a paper: 'Case of Diabetes'. The next has a paper: 'l'ennemi inquietait mes derrieres'. A lean man has one eye and holds an ear-trumpet to his ear. On the left a general sits on a stool decorated with a bonnet-rouge and motto: 'Vive la grande Nation'. He clutches a paper: 'Ordres, les Ordres'. Beside him is a torn paper, 'Plans de Campagne'. Jourdan, facing him, vomits into a chamber-pot inscribed 'Jourdan'. A large crocodile is suspended from the roof by tricolour bands. Against the wall are many emblematical objects: on the extreme left an ape (Liberty) seated on a bracket holds a bonnet-rouge on a staff. Above is a terrestrial globe suspended upside down. Next are two mummies swathed with tricolour bandages; the larger is 'Buonaparte', the smaller 'Kleber'. Glass jars containing specimens are ranged on a long shelf inscribed 'Projets Avortès' [sic]. Some of the labels are illegible, others are: 'Ireland, Commune de Pekin, Venise, Department du Mont Caucase, Directoire d'Abissinie, Armée du Gauge'.