Text below image reads, in French: "Ainsi donc, mon ami, a vingt deux ans vous avez deja tue trois hommes . . . quelles  puissantes organization, et combien la societe est coupable de ne l'avoir pas mieux dirigee! -- Ah! voui, monsieur! . . . la gendarmerie a eu bien des torts a mon regard . . sans elle je ne serais pas ici!" Google Translates this in to English as "So, my friend, at twenty-two you had already killed three men...what a powerful organization, and how guilty society is for not having better controlled it. -- Ah, yes, sir...the gendarmerie had a lot of trouble with me...without them I wouldn't be here!"

Image size within matt is 30.2cm x 20cm. Frame overall is 44cm x 32.8cm.

No foxing discerned on print. No marks seen on mat. Frame is of blond wood lightly carved, about 1.2cm wide. Backing is hardboard nicely sealed with tape. Fairly tight wire through two eyes. 

Not a common example of Daumier's work.