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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 69

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ood in the way. If the clergyare so troubled about the poor, was the response,why do they not join the third estate, or why dothey not furnish relief from their own vast surplusof wealth? This idea that the peoples representatives were 30 The French Revolution turning the needy away from the… … Plate 9. A symbolical representation entitled Ah, how hardare the times! is sternly being repulsed by the Genius of Francehimself. The last attempt at conciliation was made onJune 9, 1789. On the loth, Mirabeau declared Plate 9, above.

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