Hero of the day during the French Revolution. A man in Phrygian cap with tricolor cockade is carried on a chair by a mob of armed revolutionaries. Perhaps Camille Desmoulins at the storming of the Bastille. Le heros d'une journee, ou l'homme populaire. 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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