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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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e heel of the nethermost; Fratern-ity in the proclaiming of martial law and the firingon the mob by the National Guards. Martial lawprevailed for the moment but the memory of amob is long, as Mayor Bailly, he who had orderedthe red flag to be unfurled, was later to experience. Marat declared that this episode of the Champde Mars had caused an infernal gulf to yawnbetween the bourgeoisie (as represented by the Na-tional Guards) and the democrats (as representedby himself and his followers). The Jacobin Clubwas rent asunder and a part split off into the moremoderate club of the Feuillants. But for themost part the affiliated societies in the countrydistricts remained loyal to the mother club. We have a representation of the affair on theChamp de Mars which cannot have been greatlyexaggerated.^ On the whole, the party that hadstood for order was for the moment high in the Report of the Municipality, Poin< du Jour, July 17th. See alsoAulard, Histoire Politique, 148. ^ Plate 88, p. 193.
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0000 S 03 m S 193 194 The French Revolution ascendant, and it was a sad time for demagogueslike Marat, Robespierre, and Danton. This atti-tude is reflected in the conservative manner inwhich the revision of the Constitution was carriedto its completion. One exception, indeed, wasthe abandoning of the requirement that a man tobe eligible for the position of deputy must be ataxpayer to the amount at least of a mark of silver. We have a caricature that must have beenissued during the debates on this latter subjectand that is entitled The future legislator.The face is covered with a mask of silver thatmakes all men look as much alike as though theywere door-knockers. On the margin are thewords: Tell me yourself: in the age in which welive, is it by weight, forsooth, that men are mea-sured? And below are rhymes to the same effect.Brains do not matter, it is only a question of beingworth a mark of silver! On the third of September, 1791, the Assemblyformally declared the Constitution comple

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