Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . .The patriots detest each other more than ever didthe aristocrats and plebeians.^ The Conventionsown commissioners made similar reports from theprovinces—that everywhere people were tired ofthe Revolution. It was indeed a critical time for the new were breaking out in Normandy,in Lyons, in Toulon, in Corsica, and in La Vendee,in which latter province the struggle was to lastlong and to be of unprecedented bitterness. Andall Europe was taking up the gage of battle thatDanton had flung down. The revolutionary press and the revol
Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . .The patriots detest each other more than ever didthe aristocrats and plebeians.^ The Conventionsown commissioners made similar reports from theprovinces—that everywhere people were tired ofthe Revolution. It was indeed a critical time for the new were breaking out in Normandy,in Lyons, in Toulon, in Corsica, and in La Vendee,in which latter province the struggle was to lastlong and to be of unprecedented bitterness. Andall Europe was taking up the gage of battle thatDanton had flung down. The revolutionary press and the revolutionaryorators simply gloried in the prospect. A likezeal inflames us all, writes the Revolutions deParis, the Genius of Liberty hovers over if we had anything to fear from the tyrants andtheir flocks of slaves! And again: Let Russia, See Schmidt, Tableaux de la Revolution Frangaise, i., 173. ^ lb., [., 267. i lb., {.,2,76. War 327 England, Sweden, Holland, Spain, Sardinia, joinPrussia, Austria, and all Germany—^well, so much. Plate 144. An allegorical representation entitled The Coalition, and showing the Powers of Europe attacking the young French Republic. She, calm and smiling, will not let them touch so much as a hair of her head. the better! The Frenchman needs a little danger,then only is he great! The delusion was kept up 328 The French Revolution that all the foreign soldiers would desert to theFrench ranks; it was declared that they were merelybeing made to fight as bulls are in the arena: werepricked and goaded into the fray. England declared war on February ist; on March7th hostilities were begun with Spain. Dumouriezwas ordered to invade Holland and Kellermannprepared to overrun Italy. I am going, underyour auspices—so he wrote to the Convention—•to carry back to the ancient Romans the libertyso long excluded from their beautiful climes.^The Revolutions de Paris hopes that he will capturethe Pope and seize all the church treasure. Towards the e
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