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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 207

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ared, to have torecognize as supreme head an individual with noother claim to the place than that he took thetrouble to be born. This was not original, forBeaumarchais, in his Figaro, had applied the samewords to the nobles. The Revolutions went on tosay that the throne petrifies the most human… … Plate 81. What purports to be the exact form of the infamous poniards wielded by those who had their ears boxed, or were arrested or driven away from the Tuileries by the National Guards on the 28th of February, 1791.

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