Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . e clasp-ing Claviere around the neck and making of hima centaur a la fraternite is ingenious to say the date, to judge by the political conjuncture, isOctober or November, 1792. For a while after the opening of the NationalConvention the Girondists were high in the ascend-ant. The war that they had so strenuouslyadvocated was succeeding beyond all hope. OnSeptember 20th, the day before the opening sessionof the National Convention, Dumouriez, himselfa Girondist in sympathies, had defeated and turnedback the Duke of Brunswick at Valmy. We h
Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . e clasp-ing Claviere around the neck and making of hima centaur a la fraternite is ingenious to say the date, to judge by the political conjuncture, isOctober or November, 1792. For a while after the opening of the NationalConvention the Girondists were high in the ascend-ant. The war that they had so strenuouslyadvocated was succeeding beyond all hope. OnSeptember 20th, the day before the opening sessionof the National Convention, Dumouriez, himselfa Girondist in sympathies, had defeated and turnedback the Duke of Brunswick at Valmy. We havea caricature showing The joyous and triumphalre-entry of the Prussian Don Quixotes into Ger-many, after the conquest of France, under theguidance of the Austrian eagle. The Duke of Plate 129, p. 303. War 303 Brunswick on one dejected steed and the PrussianKing on another—both with their faces tailwards—are being addressed by the double eagle whichholds the reins: Let us fly to new conquests!Brunswick with scowling brow is saying: How. Plate 129. A caricature on the withdrawal of the Austrians and Prussiansafter the battles of Valmy and Genappes. they do fight, these dogs of Sans-Culottes I Fred-erick Williams words are too inelegant to first vote of the first session of the Conven-tion was that royalty was abolished in words were spoken during the in general were monsters; dynasties weredevouring hordes; courts were the workshops of For all that concerns the Convention up to January 21, 1793, myauthority has been the minutes of the sessions, published by the LibrairiePopulaire—no date. 304 The French Revolution crime; the history of kings was the martyrologyof nations, When the vote was passed, says theGazette de France, all arms remained raised toHeaven as if to thank it for delivering France Ly/.v /7r/^/^J-r77- tu//^^yy^.<^£^/i. < w///s//r//?^/7^.
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