Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . Plate 126. A portrait of Madame Roland taken from the cover of abonbonniere in the Mus^c Carnavalet. one of the chief grievances against Roland was hisdisseminating, with public funds, of an addressin which Louvet bitterly assailed the great pillarof the Mountain Party, Robespierre. Week afterweek the tirades on this subject continue and,^ asusual, the cartoonists were pressed into the service. 300 The French Revolution We have a caricature of Roland as a cock andMadame Roland as a hen. Some of the detailsof the production are unintelligible—to the
Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . Plate 126. A portrait of Madame Roland taken from the cover of abonbonniere in the Mus^c Carnavalet. one of the chief grievances against Roland was hisdisseminating, with public funds, of an addressin which Louvet bitterly assailed the great pillarof the Mountain Party, Robespierre. Week afterweek the tirades on this subject continue and,^ asusual, the cartoonists were pressed into the service. 300 The French Revolution We have a caricature of Roland as a cock andMadame Roland as a hen. Some of the detailsof the production are unintelligible—to the author. Plate 127. A caricature of Monsieur and Madame Roland. at least—^but Coco is a term of endearment thatMadame Roland was wont to apply to her caricature gives the clue to a very cleverrebus^ which, to the author of this book, longseemed undecipherable. It may be that even nowthe solution is incomplete and the author will be Plate 127, p. 300. ^ Plate 128, p. 301.
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