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Patience Monsignor Your Turn Will Come 1790
Cartoons attacked the refractory clergy. Here, fat, overfed, and underworked clergy are squeezed down to an appropriate size. As elsewhere, visual images mocked the clergy by depicting them as subject to the threats and physical attacks of others.
Patriotic Song on the Unveiling of the Busts of Marat and Le Pelletier (1793) 1793
This song illustrates the fluid boundary between "high" and "popular" musical forms. Althought these lyrics were set to a new composition by Joseph Gossec, they could also be sung to a tune already familiar to many French men and women. The song…
Peace Treaty (Amiens) with Great Britain (4 Germinal Year X). March 27, 1802
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Peace Treaty of Basel concluded with Spain. July 22, 1795
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Peace Treaty of Pressburg with Austria ends hostilities. December 26, 1805
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People under the Old Regime 1815
This image shows "the people" as a chained and blindfolded man being crushed under the weight of the rich, including both clergy and nobility. Such a perspective on the period before 1789 purposely exaggerates social divisions and would have found…
Peter Kropotkin on the Need for Individual Action
The Russian author Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) wrote prolifically about the French Revolution and about the ideology known as anarchism. He joined in the Russian revolutionary movement in 1872, was imprisoned by the tsarist state, and fled, escaping…