" Un Sans-culotte, instrument de crimes, dansant au milieu des horreurs, vient outrager l'humanité pleurante auprès d'un
cénotaphe. Il croit voir l'ombre de l'une des victimes de la Révolution qui le saisit à la gorge. Cette effrayante apparition le suffoque et le renverse ".
Chouans et autres contre-révolutionnaires
" The engraving mocks the "counterrevolution" by depicting its participants grotesquely and comically. It shows three
effeminate-looking dandies identified as officers of the chouan army, setting forth " to assasinate, starve, and slit the throats of... patriots ".
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Exploring the French Revolution
Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt
"After the flight to Varennes in June 1791, critics of the monarchy began to depict the king , the queen and sometimes the
entire royal family as animals.
The dehumanizing gesture opened the way to ever more vehement attacks on the king and queen and ultimately to the arrest, the imprisonment, trial, and execution of each one."
Liberty, Fraternity, Equality
Exploring the French Revolution
Jack R.
Censer and Lynn Hunter.
" The image marks a clear decline in the status of Louis XVI. He wears the dress of a commoner and a Phrygian cap and
raises a bottle. This transformation could scarcely have been anticipated in 1789 or even in 1790 ".
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Exploring the
French Revolution
Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt
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