Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . -^ // 6 yr//i( f/{JC > Plate 156. A symbolical representation of Unity and Indivisibility To arms, Frenchmen! At the very moment when a nationof friends and brothers are clasping each other in theirembraces the despots of Europe are violating our propertyand devastating our frontiers. . This time let allperish; and let their bones bleaching in our fields rise liketrophies in the ground that their blood will have renderedmore fertile! The ark with the Constitution and the bundle of Proscription 369 staves representing Unity and Indivisibility were
Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . -^ // 6 yr//i( f/{JC > Plate 156. A symbolical representation of Unity and Indivisibility To arms, Frenchmen! At the very moment when a nationof friends and brothers are clasping each other in theirembraces the despots of Europe are violating our propertyand devastating our frontiers. . This time let allperish; and let their bones bleaching in our fields rise liketrophies in the ground that their blood will have renderedmore fertile! The ark with the Constitution and the bundle of Proscription 369 staves representing Unity and Indivisibility werecarried the next day into the hall of the NationalConvention and David promised to design aresting-place for them. Yet before the Constitu-tion could go into effect it was found necessary to. Plate 157. A symbolical representation of Unity and Indivisibility watched over by the vigilant eye of the Jacobins. decree that the government of France is to berevolutionary until peace is proclaimed and thatterror was the order of the day. It remainedforever a dead letter. We have various symbolical representations thathave to do with this theme of indivisibility. In one,France is looking forward to a new day, her feet on Plate 156, p. 368. 24 370 The French Revolution the dead hydra of Federalism, her arm resting ona shield with the bundle of staves tightly tied to-gether, while beneath is the inscription, In thename of the republic one and indivisible. In an-other production the most prominent feature is aneye—the eye of vigilance of the Jacobins. David, itwill be remembered, had given the most prominentplace in his procession to the so-called popularsocieties, and this emblem of the eye had figuredon their banner. Then, indeed, the eye had beenrepresented as piercing a thick c
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