File:The French Feast of Reason, or the Cloven-foot triumphant (BM 1868,0808.6313).jpg
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[edit]The French Feast of Reason, or the Cloven-foot triumphant ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: William Dent
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Title |
The French Feast of Reason, or the Cloven-foot triumphant |
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Description |
English: The interior of Notre Dame, with Liberty seated on 'Pandora's Box'; this is supported on a mound of grass and flowers from beneath which snakes emerge. She holds a staff on which is a large cap of liberty decorated with a guillotine; snakes form her hair and she beckons with her right forefinger to a grinning and sacrilegious crowd. Behind her (left) is a kiln inscribed 'Torch or Volcano of Truth Diffusing the Light of Reason to the Surrounding Departments'; from it issue flames inscribed 'Blasphemy', 'Distress', 'Rapine', 'Murder', 'Rape', 'Annihilation', 'Plunder'. Behind it is the arch of (?) the nave; on each side is drawn an animal: (left) a grotesque spotted beast, seated, inscribed 'Sacred to the Memory of Tyger Marat' [assassinated 13 July 1793]; (right) a seated ape, 'Sacred to the Memory of Monkey Le Pelletier' [assassinated 20 Jan. 1793 for having voted for the execution of Louis XVI].
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Depicted people | Associated with: Jean Baptiste Joseph Gobe | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1793 date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.6313 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) For the Fête de la Raison on 10 Nov. 1793, see Aulard, 'Hist. politique de la Rév. fr.', 1909, pp. 469 ff. Liberty was an opera singer; she received homage seated on a bank. 'The Torch of Truth' burned on a small Greek altar. Notre Dame was henceforth to be known as the Temple of Reason. A decree of 9 Oct. ordered ('inter alia') that over the gate of cemeteries should be inscribed 'La mort est un sommeil éternel'. On 7 Nov. Bishop Gobel had appeared at the bar of the Convention, with eleven of his vicars, had laid down his cross and ring, and had donned the bonnet rouge. See Aulard, 'Le Culte de la Raison . . .', 1892; de Vinck, Nos. 6315-28. See also water-colours of processions carrying and ridiculing vestments and sacred objects, Hennin, Nos. 11,702-5 (reproductions, Dayot, 'Rév.fr.', pp. 247, 250). Busts or portraits of Marat and Le Peletier in juxtaposition as martyrs of liberty were very popular in France. See de Vinck, Nos. 5335-46, and Schreiber Collection of Fans, Nos. 124, 125. Cf. BMSats 8334, 8702. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6313 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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