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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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at the cartoonistsshould be active, though the productions of courseare all one-sided. In one entitled The return ofAbbe M. to his father, we have the patriotic oldman, with the cap of liberty on his head, soundlythrashing his cowering son, the abbe, who hasrefused to take the civic oath. From the windowabove, the mother looks on and claps her hands,with Bravo! bravo! he has long been playing usdirty tricks! We have an interesting double representation^showing, on the one hand, the patriot-priest tak-ing the civic oath in good faith, and, on the other,the aristocrat-priest fleeing from the civic oath.In the first, the cure, with one hand on his heartand with a liberty cap in the other, is standing infront of the cross of Christ against which rests thecivil constitution of the clergy. In the air float thebishops crook and mitre that will one day be hisbecause of his obedience. But the second pictureshows the aristocrat-priest out on the cold, wind- Plate 71, p. 151. ^ Plates 72 and 73.
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i:.i Plate 72. A representation of the beatitude of a priest who hastaken the patriotic oath. A bishops mitre is within his reach. 153 154 The French Revolution swept, snow-covered hillside. He is reduced to amere skeleton and he is asking himself, Whereshall I go? To call a man an aristocrat in thosedays was to say the very worst of him that themind of man could conceive. The Revolutions deParis came out with an illustration of a most novelkind.^ At first view it represents a member of theclergy, with the clerical tie and cross, and grindinghis teeth with rage. Above is the inscription, Anaristocrat cursing the Revolution. But turningthe page upside down—and the reader can do it aswell with our book as with the Revolutions deParis—you see nothing but a Simon-pure noble,with his titles of nobility for a collar and his privi-leges for a cravat, giving forth hearty guffaws oflaughter. Above one reads: An aristocrat trust-ing in counter-revolution. -Mirabeau had not attempted to stan

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