"The Song of the End": the Whole World Now Chases Him Still Image

Napoleon flees in terror as a thorny globe covered in soldiers chases him toward a cliff with a skull and tombstone, beneath a radiant all-seeing eye in the sky.

Dublin Core

Title

"The Song of the End": the Whole World Now Chases Him

Description

Where Napoleon was once the conqueror, the world now avenges itself. This sense of reversal, felt widely outside of France, characterized a number of the caricatures of Napoleon, and indeed of the entire Revolution.

Source

Cornell Nap. 31

Relation

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/527/

Identifier

527

Citation

“"The Song of the End": the Whole World Now Chases Him,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed November 9, 2026, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/527.