Identifier: symbolsatireinfr01hend (find matches)
Title: Symbol and satire in the French Revolution
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg), 1861-1928
Subjects: Caricatures and cartoons
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nspire her? Austria, on February 7th, concluded an alliancewith Prussia,which power agreed to send, if need be,40,000 men into the field. On March ist, EmperorLeopold died after a very short illness and wassucceeded by his son Francis IL, a youth of twenty-three who was not likely to endure Frances threatscomplacently—and the party in power in Francewas ready to push things to extremes. Vergniaudin the Assembly made a wildly savage onslaught onthe corrupt councillors who perverted the Kingand were seeking to betray the nation to the Houseof Austria. He could see the palace windows, hecried, where they were plotting counter-revolution,anarchy, and a return to slavery. But the momenthad come for putting an end to all this insolenceand he apostrophized Terror and Fright biddingthem re-enter in the name of the law that famouspalace whence they had so often issued in the nameof despotism. And let all who dwell there know,he concluded, that our Constitution accords in- Sorel, ii., 365 ff.
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