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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 92

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abbed, finally, and hishead severed by a cook with a penknife—and ofthe provost of the merchants, Flesselles, whosegreat crime had been that, when ordered bythe sovereign people to furnish arms, he had sentup to the Hotel de Ville some boxes which hadthen been found to contain nothing but old… … Plate 21. A cartoon entitled Despotism overthrown, and likening thestorming of the Bastile to the slaying of a hydra. nobiHty; while in The noble Two-step,^ wehave a nobleman and an abbe dancing to the pipingof a national guard. Occasionally we find productions that are ex-tremely elaborate, like…

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