Nobles and royalists fleeing to Koblenz from Revolutionary France during the Reign of Terror. An officer in uniform, an aristocrat and man in buckle shoes reading a newspaper rest on their baggage on the road. Les emigres. 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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