Charles Philipon launched the comic magazine, La Caricature in 1831, and Daumier joined up, and soon the journal was in direct conflict with the Louis Philippe, who had become King of France in 1830.
Daumier soon saw the King's ire aimed at him, when Daumier produced what is likely his most famous drawing, where he depicts Louis Philippe as Gargantua, feeding off the toil of the peasants of France.
Daumier's caricature of the king as Gargantua led to his imprisonment for six months.
