Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . been commissioned to make usleave here, you had better procure orders to use force; fornothing short of bayonets will make us quit our places! There was a cry of That is the will of theAssembly! and De Breze was so astonished at thestorm he had conjured up that he retired backingout, we are told, as he was accustomed to do fromthe presence of royalty. An engraving of the time^ shows Mirabeauaddressing De Breze. It would be interesting toknow whether the symbolical representations ofliberty and law could possibly have been includedamong the decoratio
Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . been commissioned to make usleave here, you had better procure orders to use force; fornothing short of bayonets will make us quit our places! There was a cry of That is the will of theAssembly! and De Breze was so astonished at thestorm he had conjured up that he retired backingout, we are told, as he was accustomed to do fromthe presence of royalty. An engraving of the time^ shows Mirabeauaddressing De Breze. It would be interesting toknow whether the symbolical representations ofliberty and law could possibly have been includedamong the decorations that Louis XVI had sanc-tioned for the hall of the States-General. Morelikely the liberation of captives and the breaking This is the version given by the Debats et Decrets which is, on thewhole, the most reliable of the newspapers.^ Plate II, p. 37. Liberty 41 of chains were a fanciful addition of the artistfirst inspired by the fall of the Bastile. The Kings command to disperse had been flatlyand openly disobeyed. The National Assembly. Plate 12. A cartoon showing the third estate welcoming the other twoestates to the ranks of the National Assembly, June 30, 1789 seized that very occasion to reaffirm emphaticallyits previous decrees. And what action was takenby Louis XVI ? None. He very characteristicallyremarked to De Brez6: If the gentlemen of thethird estate do not wish to leave the hall, there isnothing to do but to allow them to remain Indirectly, indeed, there was some action taken. 42 The French Revolution Thirty carpenters were despatched to the was hoped, wrote Ferrieres, that the noise ?^^i^%>
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