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His first employment was a minor post in the Paris city administration, where he had to register recruits: he served in the
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His military subjects particularly delighted
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Charlet was an uncommonly tall man, with an expressive face, bantering and good natured. His character was full of boyish fun and high spirits, with manly independence and a vein of religious feeling. He was a hearty favourite among his intimates, one of whom was the painter
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Charlet designed many subjects of town life, peasant life, and the ways of children with much wit and whim in his descriptive mottoes. One of the most famous sets is the
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army, whose death in the ranks left the widow and orphan in very poor circumstances. Madame
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numerous military lithographs and some original drawings by
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Charlet married in 1824, and two sons survived him.
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