Rare Animals; or, the Transfer of the Royal Family from the Tuileries to the Temple. Champfleury, 1792 Still Image

A revolutionary soldier drives a turkey, a sheep-bodied wolf-woman, and other hybrid animal figures representing the royal family away from a castle with a whip and pike.

Dublin Core

Title

Rare Animals; or, the Transfer of the Royal Family from the Tuileries to the Temple. Champfleury, 1792

Description

Here the events of 10 August were expressed by reducing the royal family to animals. Driven from their palace to prison, the family became no more than a group of barnyard animals. Contrast these common four–footed animals with the erect revolutionary whipping them along.

Creator

None Identified

Source

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Date

1792

Rights

Public Domain

Relation

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/192/|Collection Michel Hennin. Estampes relatives à l'Histoire de France. Tome 128, Pièces 11231-11307, période : 1792|Collection de Vinck. Un siècle d'histoire de France par l'estampe, 1770-1870. Vol. 29 (pièces 4856-5017), Ancien Régime et Révolution

Format

JPEG

Language

French

Identifier

192

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Engraving

Physical Dimensions

18 x 24 cm

Caption

Les Animaux rares : ou la translation de la ménagerie royale au Temple, le 20 aoust 1792, 4.me de la liberté et 1.er de l'égalité

Citation

None Identified, “Rare Animals; or, the Transfer of the Royal Family from the Tuileries to the Temple. Champfleury, 1792,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed November 9, 2026, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/192.