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Ché cha une belle chaudronnerie!..., 1865. 'Ché cha une belle chaudronnerie!...et qu'il y en a pour de l'argent cheulement à chinq chous la livre!'. Man slurring drunkenly: 'That's a beautiful piece of boilermaking!...and it's a bargain at five sous a pound!'. On the boiler is written the word Vercingetorix, who was a Gallic nobleman and chieftain of the Arverni who united the Gauls in a failed revolt against Rome during the Gallic Wars (58-50 BCE). Series: Croquis pris au Salon.