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Title: Symbol and satire in the French Revolution
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg), 1861-1928
Subjects: Caricatures and cartoons
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Plate 7. The three estates in their respective costumes of ceremony. Many were impressed by the dignified bearingof these popular deputies, while from one of them,Mirabeau, Madame de Stael, Neckers daughter,tells us it was difficult to turn the eye away.Though his face was strikingly ugly, his whole Plate 8, p. 27.
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Plate 8. The costume of a deputy of the third estate. 27 28 The French Revolution person gave the impression of an unrestrainedpower, but of such power as one associates with atribune of the people. Ferrieres describes himself^ as plunged in thesweetest ecstasy at the sight of the procession.He seemed, he says, to hear France calling: Layaside your childish quarrels, for the moment hascome which will give me new life or annihilate meforever. Yet, far from being laid aside, these samechildish quarrels had by May 6th brought mattersto a complete deadlock. The fatal mistake had been made by the Kingsministers of having no definite programme to pre-sent for the consideration of the States-General.The deficit? Necker spoke of that as a mere trifle—something that could very easily be remedied.But if so, why then these elaborate preparations?Why this urgent appeal to the people? ^ The deputies began to wrangle over matters thatshould have been settled long beforehand—^whetherthey should

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