The French Shrove Tuesday, ca. 1701-1713, The French Shrove Evening, Shown in a Conversation between a Sweets and a Danish Nobleman, Le Carnaval de France (...) (title on object), The French Shrove Tuesday. Allegory of the dragonades in France under King Louis XIV. On the left, the virtues are chased away by Jesuits, they flee to a temple (the Republic) where they are welcomed. Centrally the bloodletting of France, the blood is licked up by dogs. On the right Mars with a wooden leg with Death, poverty, widows and orphans in his wake. On the sheet below the plate the conversation between a

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