La Contre revolution. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Cartoon showing clergy, nobility, and fugitive counterrevolutionaries, who were against the reforms of the revolution, walking in procession along the Rhine River toward a man, on the left, holding a paper that states a list of charges against the nation, and another man holding a basket of coins. The French flag labeled "Liberté" is planted on soil labeled "Constitution Françoise" on the far left, across the Rhine. Includes a key with numbers corresponding to numbered figures in the print.

Printed at bottom: Se vend à Paris chez le principaux Marchands d'Estampes.

de Vinck, 4419

Blum, 496

UCLA, 5

(DLC/PP-1921:R2.104).

Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).

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01/01/1792

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