Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . ^e/hcurr Deicmruzi/ J^%irel^ ^erlAier ^oti/o?i e^ ce^ tiaecc ^art/ej- tiu Corpr fu•arue. ^ J Mem/ -Frtm^-oiJ Moii/ang^r t^icftrnt- 7/i7wc^;i/& ai ^ J^ttretir ^r^^^T -^^ Plate 49. A cartoon representing Charon refusing to ferry over any of theheadless ones save a baker who had been killed by mistake. We have meanwhile lost sight—every one lostsight—of the National Assembly of France. Fromfirst to last it had played an undignified role—•allowing the women to enter its precincts andconduct themselves as though they were in a cajechantant; taking no
Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . ^e/hcurr Deicmruzi/ J^%irel^ ^erlAier ^oti/o?i e^ ce^ tiaecc ^art/ej- tiu Corpr fu•arue. ^ J Mem/ -Frtm^-oiJ Moii/ang^r t^icftrnt- 7/i7wc^;i/& ai ^ J^ttretir ^r^^^T -^^ Plate 49. A cartoon representing Charon refusing to ferry over any of theheadless ones save a baker who had been killed by mistake. We have meanwhile lost sight—every one lostsight—of the National Assembly of France. Fromfirst to last it had played an undignified role—•allowing the women to enter its precincts andconduct themselves as though they were in a cajechantant; taking no apparent interest in what wasgoing on at the palace; allowing so vital a matter as. 1 .., ,ic (, r,„. n I ,? * itUyi-n - J, .,» .. („. I }.. 1 ,>l fl-Mca-i. U.:y^ .^,i< Jn,./r,J | ,,<«.-». <..r fanfl Jifa iiattl. Plate 50. A symbolical production showing Reason in the act ofexplaining the new divisions of France while Envy andHatred seek to hamper no The French Revolution that of the Kings change of residence, which wouldnecessarily affect them deeply, to be decided by alawless mob. There were those who felt all this keenly. Thepresident of the Assembly, Mounier, fled fromFrance and took refuge in Geneva. On one pre-text or another some two hundred members leftVersailles. We have the defiance that one of themhurled at those who remained: 1 Neither this guilty town nor this still guiltier Assemblydeserve that I justify myself. I had not strength anylonger to endure the horror inspired by this blood, theseheads, this queen all but butchered; this king led as a slaveand made to enter Paris in the midst of his assassins andbehind the heads of
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