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Symbol and satire in the French Revolution (1912)

Henderson, Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg), 1861-1928 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 118

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harnessedto a plough like beasts of burden; let them bring thosedeeds which oblige men to pass nights in beating the edgesof ponds to keep the frogs from troubling the sleep of theirvoluptuous lords! Who of us, sirs, would not make of theseinfamous parchments an expiatory pyre and would notapply… … Plate 35. An allegorical representation which shows France inscribing on amonument the feudal privileges renounced on August 4, 1789. 79 8o The French Revolution and passed with such rapidity that they couldscarcely be recorded. Seigniorial jurisdictions;whole categories of tithes and clerical…

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