A reactionary alarmist spreading rumors among citizens during the French Revolution. Scaremonger in hat and frock coat and buckle shoes whispering to a tradesman in Phrygian cap and apron. L'alarmiste. Handcoloured steel engraving by Leopold Massard after an illustration by Henri Baron from Augustin Challamel and Wilhelm Tenint’s Les Francais sous la Revolution, The French under the Revolution, Challamel, Paris, 1843.

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