Un peuple est sans honneur, et mérite ses chaines Quand il baisse le front sons le sceptre des reines.

Print shows a nude woman pulling back the curtain to a tent to reveal a female figure or mermaid on a bed stabbing a king sitting in a chair; a bust of a satyr is at the head of the bed, and two-faced Justice stands to the right, as other figures crowd the bed on the left.

de Vinck, 1134

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

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