Caricature - Le peuple sous l'Ancien Régime

" This image shows "the people" as a chained and blindfolded  man being crushed under the weight of the clergy and nobility. Such a perspective on the period before 1789 purposely exaggerates social divisions and would have found few proponents before the Revolution, but the caricature does reveal the social clash felt so intensely by the revolutionaries ".

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Exploring the French Revolution
Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt