Dispose of the Jezuites; Expulsion des Jésuites. A political print following the anti-Jesuits proclamation of August 6, 1761. Two medallions framed with attributes. At the top of the all-seeing eye and a scale, on the right of justice, on the left a sword. At the bottom of a fox that loses its tail from one of the fables of Aesopus. In the left medallion a book burning of the scriptures of the Order, including works by Mariana, Busembaum and Suarez. A man tears a book, and a Jesuit runs away. On the stairs a figure with a list in his hands. Under the show the title in Latin and the date: COMBU
Dispose of the Jezuites; Expulsion des Jésuites. A political print following the anti-Jesuits proclamation of August 6, 1761. Two medallions framed with attributes. At the top of the all-seeing eye and a scale, on the right of justice, on the left a sword. At the bottom of a fox that loses its tail from one of the fables of Aesopus. In the left medallion a book burning of the scriptures of the Order, including works by Mariana, Busembaum and Suarez. A man tears a book, and a Jesuit runs away. On the stairs a figure with a list in his hands. Under the show the title in Latin and the date: COMBUSTIS LIBRIS VI THAT AUGUSTI, In the court medallion, two students run away from the Collège Louis-le-Grand. One pointed to the rules that are hung on the door frame. On the right is a Jesuit, looking at his broken stick on the floor. Under the show the title in Latin and the date: Perversis Tandem Deletis Scholis. The whole stands on a piedolder with a six-line text in French.
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