Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . Plate 77. A caricature of Marie Antoinette as an Austrian pantheress. of October, 1790, when the King and Queen adoptedthe project of delivering themselves from Marie Antoinette played more than apassive part. It was at her desire, writes CountBouille, that Count Fersen, who had access to the. Plate 78. A cartoon which shows the devil inciting Pope Pius VI to signthe bull condemning the civil constitution of the clergy^^ 161 i62 The French Revolution King, caused the project for his deliverance to belaid before him. The hostility agai
Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . Plate 77. A caricature of Marie Antoinette as an Austrian pantheress. of October, 1790, when the King and Queen adoptedthe project of delivering themselves from Marie Antoinette played more than apassive part. It was at her desire, writes CountBouille, that Count Fersen, who had access to the. Plate 78. A cartoon which shows the devil inciting Pope Pius VI to signthe bull condemning the civil constitution of the clergy^^ 161 i62 The French Revolution King, caused the project for his deliverance to belaid before him. The hostility against the King and Queen goeson increasing. We have two caricatures^ that wecan date only by conjecture but that may wellbe ascribed to this time. The courts attitudetowards the refractory priests, whom it undoubt-edly encouraged in secret, had much to do with thematter. The horns on the head of the pig thatrepresents Louis XVI are understandable in thelight of a passage from the correspondence ofStael -Holstein, the Swedish ambassador ^: It is much to be feared that there will soon be a new sceneof horror; De la Motte is here with his wife [the De laMottes of diamond necklace fame!] and there seems to bea demand that the Assembly re-try the case and that she[Madame de la Motte] appear before the bar. They intendto employ against the Queen every
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