Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . ud, in one of themost stirring harangues of the whole Revolution,accused Louis XVI of conspiring with foreignersto enslave and dismember France. The fact, too,that Petion, Mayor of Paris, was suspended atLouis instigation for not having taken bettermeasures for his protection, added to the sent alarming reports of the condition ofthe army; yet the enemies were rapidly approach-ing the frontier, Prussia having formally declaredwar on July 6th. In Brittany, in La Vendee,there were the beginnings of insurrection. In the Assembly there
Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . ud, in one of themost stirring harangues of the whole Revolution,accused Louis XVI of conspiring with foreignersto enslave and dismember France. The fact, too,that Petion, Mayor of Paris, was suspended atLouis instigation for not having taken bettermeasures for his protection, added to the sent alarming reports of the condition ofthe army; yet the enemies were rapidly approach-ing the frontier, Prussia having formally declaredwar on July 6th. In Brittany, in La Vendee,there were the beginnings of insurrection. In the Assembly there were fierce debates as towhether or not Petion should be dismissed fromoffice. We have a representation of Petion^ thatmust have been issued by his partisans at thisvery crisis and that is interesting in various portrait in the form of a medallion is Duvergier, iv., 223. » lb., iv., 225. 3 Plate 105, p. 240. 240 The French Revolution suspended by a tri-coloured ribbon in or overa great heart. The text underneath reads: Je-. Plate 105. A portrait of Petion, man of the hour and idoHzed Mayor of Paris. He is enshrined in the popular heart under the protecting folds of the tri-coloured ribbon. Note the heart. rome Petion, Mayor of Paris, illegally suspendedby the counter-revolutionary department-direc-tory at the instigation of a superior authority Downfall 241 more revolutionary still. Around the medallionare the words, His love for liberty has placed himin our hearts. He was an incorruptible is a mayor without fear and without now followed thick and fast. On July7th, after frightful bickerings in the Assembly,
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