Jean-Sylvain Mauri or Jean-Sifrein Maury (1746-1817), French cardinal, archbishop and bishop of Montefiascone. Vignette shows him almost hanged from a lamp-iron by a mob and replying Eh, monsieur, quand vous m'aurez mis a la lanterne, y verrez-vous plus clair! Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Portraits des Personnages qui ont le plus Figure dans la Revolution Francaise, Auber, Pairs, 1800. Portrait engraved by Charles Francois Gabriel Levachez.

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