They say that Parisians are difficult to please, on these four benches there is not one discontent-It is true that all these Frenchmen are Romans, 1864, Honoré Daumier, French, 1808-1879, 11 11/16 x 10 15/16 in. (29.69 x 27.78 cm) (sheet), Lithograph, France, 19th century, Theatrical performances were popular entertainments in mid-nineteenth-century Paris. In this lithograph, Daumier focuses on the audience; especially the members of the 'claque,' a group hired to sit directly behind the orchestra to applaud the performance. Nearly every Parisian theater of this time employed a claque, and in this image, they are either genuinely fascinated by the show or quite successful in their own performance.