La M?re est dans le feu de la composition, 1844. La m?re est dans le feu de la composition, l'enfant est dans l'eau de la baignoire! (The mother is in the heat of composition, the child is in the water of the bathtub!). Satirical criticism of women who have interests outside housework and childcare - the selfish mother devotes herself to novel-writing while her neglected child drowns. From Les Bas-bleus, no. 7.