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In November 1831, publisher Charles Philipon was tried for a caricature of the king, and right in the courtroom, he transformed Louis-Philippe's face into a pear before the jury: if you ban the drawing, you'll have to ban the fruit too. The pear spread throughout Paris, and Honoré Daumier turned it into a weapon and went to prison for it. How a cheap lithograph led France to censorship and eventually ended up in a museum, read in the new article "The Royal Pear."