Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . Plate 148. A representation of the tomb in which Marats remains wereplaced before being transferred to the Pantheon. It faced theNational Palace, formerly the 356 The French Revolution This Constitution of 1793, although it wasaccepted by nearly all France, was never to beapplied; for, as we shall see presently, permanent. Plate 149. A representation of the first stage of the F^te to Unity and IndivisibiHty. The Fountain of Regeneration is to be erected on the site of the Bastile. laws of any kind were to prove too hampering forliberty
Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . Plate 148. A representation of the tomb in which Marats remains wereplaced before being transferred to the Pantheon. It faced theNational Palace, formerly the 356 The French Revolution This Constitution of 1793, although it wasaccepted by nearly all France, was never to beapplied; for, as we shall see presently, permanent. Plate 149. A representation of the first stage of the F^te to Unity and IndivisibiHty. The Fountain of Regeneration is to be erected on the site of the Bastile. laws of any kind were to prove too hampering forliberty. But for the moment the Mountain wasintensely proud of its work. In honour of theacceptance of the Constitution and at the sametime of the victory over federalism, it was deter-mined to give one of the grandest fetes that themind of man had ever imagined. The day chosen Proscription 357 was August loth, anniversary of the storming ofthe Tuileries. The arrangements were made by David, thefamous painter, to whom it seems to have beenindifferent whether he glorified the repubHc or theEmpire, Robespierre or Napoleon. His full pro-gramme for the occasion has been preserved butwould be much less intelligible were it not for aseries of six sketches, possibly also by David,which show the different stages of the fete. We have reached the highest point of symbol-ism in the French R
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