Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . e a modern writer,^ the deviceof Louis XIV: It entered whip in hand withinthe legislative precincts and proffered to the dazedrepresentatives of the law the brutal and insolentformula, The state? I am the state! And now these good sans-culottes, of whom someartist thought it worth while to preserve the type,-determined to administer a direct lesson to theKing and Queen and invade their privacy atthe Tuileries. The royal family were enjoyingtheir afternoon coffee when there was a crashingof railings, a forcing of gates, and a beating open ofdoors wit
Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . e a modern writer,^ the deviceof Louis XIV: It entered whip in hand withinthe legislative precincts and proffered to the dazedrepresentatives of the law the brutal and insolentformula, The state? I am the state! And now these good sans-culottes, of whom someartist thought it worth while to preserve the type,-determined to administer a direct lesson to theKing and Queen and invade their privacy atthe Tuileries. The royal family were enjoyingtheir afternoon coffee when there was a crashingof railings, a forcing of gates, and a beating open ofdoors with axes. There were cries of Down withthe King! Down with Monsieur and MadameVeto! * Louis was threatened with dethronementif he did not at once sanction the decrees of theAssembly and recall his Girondist ministers. The King had ordered his retainers to cease allopposition and retired to the shelter of a bay win- Plate 102, p. 231. * Sorel. J Plate 103, p. 235. ^ Azema {Rev. Fr. xxviii., 170); also von Sybel, ii., 405, and Plate 103. A depiction of the typical sans-culotte of Paris with his pike, the weapon of the Revolution, and the cockade in his hat 235 236 The French Revolution dow, while Marie Antoinette and the children tookrefuge behind a table. The Dauphin and his sister,we are told, fell on their knees and with foldedhands begged for mercy for Mama! Never had son of St. Louis had his person treatedwith such brutal familiarity. He was made toput on a red cap of Liberty, which was reachedover to him on the end of a pike, and to hold in hishand a sword twined with flowers and with a tri-coloured cockade on its point. One good sans-culotte made repeated dabs at him with his pike,and others tried to reach him with the points oftheir swords. Order was finally restored after three deputationshad been sent from the National Assembly. Allis perfectly quiet at this moment, writes a mem-ber, but it is a terrible lesson for the King, Queen,and the rest. They are
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