A Sop to Cerberus mb-code 2324879 Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour

View of no 60 Fleet Street

South view of the Tower of London with figures on horseback

Barry Fantoni

The lower room features a fireplace with a stone seat

A Sop to Cerberus mb-code 2324879 Arthur Balfour'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.