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A Grateful France Proclaims Napoleon the First Emperor of the Frence

In this engraving, Roman and contemporary themes are combined to glorify the new emperor. The absence of any clear representation of revolutionary liberty shows Napoleon moving away from the events of the preceding decade.

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A French Gentleman of The Court of Louis XVI

A sarcastic treatment from England of French manners that contrasts the weakness of the old regime with revolutionary arrogance. The engraver also seems to be pointing toward two entirely different views of masculinity.

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A Foreign Tree

These painted engravings ridicule the unrest wrought by French revolutionaries by contrasting French subversion with British stability.

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A Democrat, or Reason and Philosophy

This cartoon by the popular British caricaturist James Gillray depicts the British politician Charles James Fox as a sans–culotte. Wearing a cockade in his wig and a bandage on his forehead, the unshaven Fox raises his bloody left hand as he lifts his left leg to break wind.

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20 June 1791, Anonymous Drawing

In this depiction of the King’s arrest, the Queen risks her body to save her son, the crown prince.

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Day of 10 August 1792

This engraving gives a ground–eye view of the action; far from an orderly operation, the "day" appears chaotic and menacing, as the inspired people face what appear to be cannons being fired by royal soldiers. This romantic image would become the predominant view of this event.