" 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
" This engraving , likely produced before the king's flight from Paris, takes the Louis XVI of the Old Regime and makes him a
revolutionary with the addition of the Phrygian cap. While the engraver's precise intention is unknown, contemporaries might have seen this as mocking Louis's new position in the Revolution.
Others, less cynical, might have seen an attempt to create a monarch living with the constitution ".
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Exploring the French Revolution
Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt
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