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Exit Libertè a la Francois!-or- Buonaparte closing the Farce of Egalitè, at St cloud near Paris Novr 10th 1799.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
Exit Libertè a la Francois!-or- Buonaparte closing the Farce of Egalitè, at St cloud near Paris Novr 10th 1799.
Description
English: Bonaparte (right) stands in profile to the left, directing with outstretched right arm the Grenadiers who, at the point of the bayonet, are ejecting the Council of Five Hundred from the Orangery. The members, in their official costume (see BMSat 9198), flee in wild confusion. Officers (right) stand behind Bonaparte; a little drummer fiercely beats a drum inscribed 'Vive la Liberte'. A tricolour flag is inscribed 'Vive le Triumverate Buonaparte Seyes-Ducos'. All are caricatured except Bonaparte, who is calm and dignified, though with (dagger) wounds on face and arms. He tramples on 'Un liste de Membres du Conseil des Cinque Cents' which lies beside a paper: 'Resignation des Directoires'. 21 November 1799
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French
Date 1799
date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 250 millimetres
Width: 353 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1851,0901.1003
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Full accounts of the 'coup d'état' of 19 Brumaire (10 Nov.) were in the London newspapers on 18 Nov., preliminary accounts having been received by telegraph (cf. BMSat 9232). Farges had been sent in to the 'Anciens' to stir them to action by a fable of daggers drawn against Bonaparte in the Five Hundred, and Lucien Bonaparte, as President of the Five Hundred, declared to the troops that the Assembly was dominated by armed brigands doubtless inspired by the English Government. See 'Camb. Mod. Hist.' viii. 682 ff.; Dayot, 'Rév.fr.', pp. 471-7; and BMSats 9427, 9428, 9431, 9433, 9534.

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 262. Wright and Evans, No. 248. Van Stolk, No. 5455. Broadley, i. 130-1. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Reproduced, Dayot, 'Rév.fr.', p. 477; Grand-Carteret, 'Napoleon en images', 1895, p. 58.
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