A Sop to Cerberus Product:Postcard Bedford standing at the front

Bedford standing at the front of a car

'The Corporation's visit to their brother in Smithfield or the hog's feast on being sworn-in

'St Sebastian'

Pictured here at Syon House Antique Grounds

A Sop to Cerberus Product:Postcard Bedford standing at the front'A Sop to Cerberus', 1872. This cartoon shows Louis Adolphe Thiers, the first president of the Third Republic, and Leon Gambetta, the deputy for Marseilles. Here they are threatened by Cerberus, which, in Greek mythology, was the three headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades. The heads represent Legitimist, Imperial and Orleanist, which groups, with the Red Republicans, were warring continually and causing France's administration great problems.