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En reviendra-t'elle? - A painting of a group of people sitting around ...

Print shows seven royal physicians in consultation over the health of a female figure, representing the new French constitution, slumped in a chair; a clergyman is washing her feet.

Depart de MM. Charles & Robert, du Jardin des Tuilleries dans leur mac...

Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. "Sic itur ad astra" wr... More

Journée memorable du 6 Octobre 1789

Print shows members of the Gardes du Corps who had been disarmed, joined by the National Guard, and the market-women of Paris who had marched on Versailles in the preceding days, now making the return trip to P... More

Le Souhait accompli v'la comme j'avions toujours désiré que ça fut.

Cartoon showing three men representing the three estates (clergyman, nobleman, and peasant) embracing and standing on red, white, and blue sheets marked "haine," "grandeurs," and "benefices." (National Assembly... More

Mr. Charles, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. Tissandier collection.

Proclamation de la patrie en danger le 22 juillet 1792 Prieur inv. & d...

Print shows troops marching in procession as cannons fire in the distance. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Auber, 1804, no. 65. Gift; Joseph Ver... More

Les dames de la Halle partant pour aller chercher le Roi a Versailles,...

Print shows a large procession of women and some members of the National Guard, with a carriage and a covered wagon, marching to Versailles. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de l... More

[Three panel cartoon representing the change in condition of French pe...

Print shows a three panel cartoon representing the change in condition of French peasants, union of the Three Orders (clergy, aristocracy, and people), and miserable plight of peasants Possibly purchased by Ge... More

Expérience du parachûte. Le 1er Brumaire an 6 (22 octobre 1797. v.f.) ...

Print shows André Jacques Garnerin, first man to descend in a parachute, standing in the gondola of his parachute waving a French flag after release from his balloon (shown deflated at left). His balloon had as... More

The Palace of the Tuileries / Bingham photo ; Dorherty, sc.

Copyright by B.B. Russell. Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Experience du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert au Jardin de...

Print shows Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. (S... More

Le moment d'hilarité universelle ou le triomphe de MMrs. Charles et Ro...

French liberty - British slavery / Js. Gy. desn. et fect. pro bono pub...

A design in two compartments. On the left is a lean and ragged sansculotte, seated on a stool before an open hearth ravenously eating raw onions, while he warms his bare toes at the fire. He is rejoicing. On th... More

[It was half-past four when the sentence was pronounced upon her and s...

Soldier with bayonet leading convicted woman (Marie Antoinette?) out of French Revolutionary courtroom. (DLC/PP-1934:0097). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "... More

Journée memorable de Versailles le lundi 5 Octobre 1789

Print shows market women of Paris riding on a cannon drawn by two horses, one with rider, during the memorable journey from Paris to Versailles, accompanied by members of the National Guard and others carrying ... More

The doctor indulged with his favorite scene, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows cleric Dr. Richard Price, kneeling on a crown with a demon on his back, peering through a peep-hole into the royal bedroom at Versailles, watching ruffians destroy the Queen's bed and bedroom in s... More

Adieu Bastille - A drawing of a man with a lion on a leash

Print shows a member of the Third Estate playing a bagpipe, standing next to a tame lion, representing the monarchy, and manipulating marionettes, representing the clergy and the nobility, on a string tied to h... More

"Rosine! Rosine! Ma chère Rosine! Je jure que je t'adore"

Print shows an abbé rushing into the bedroom of "Rosine" professing his love for her, the woman (possibly intended to be a caricature of Marie Antoinette) stands to receive him with open arms, saying "Non, non,... More

Reveil du tiers etat - A drawing of a man being taken to the ground

Print shows a nobleman and a clergyman reacting with horror as a member of the Third Estate awakens, throws off the chains of bondage, and reaches for a rifle. The destruction of the Bastille is taking place in... More

Franc̦ois Pilatre de Rozier, né à Metz le 30. mars 1756, mort près de ...

Oval head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.

Enjambée de la sainte famille des Thuilleries à Montmidy

Print shows Marie Antoinette taking an enormous step from the rooftop of the Tuileries Palace in Paris to Montmédy, she is holding the royal scepter, from which the tip has broken off, in her right hand, Louis ... More

L'entreé-franche - je me suis ruine pour l'en gresser - la fin du comp...

Print shows Louis XVI as a pig with fish on his head forming the horns of cuckoldry, on a hind leg is a tether held by a man of the Third Estate. de Vinck, 3989 Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collecti... More

France ; England. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British ...

Political cartoon showing "France" with man kneeling and presenting crown to old woman on throne with other women standing, three of them with heads on poles. "England" with man sitting on crate "general excise... More

Vue de la montagne elevée au champ de la reunion

Print shows the Festival of the Supreme Being, inspired by Robespierre, planned by Jacques Louis David, to commemorate the second year of the Republic; a female figure, representing France, riding on a cart wit... More

La chose impossible, ou la commission des finances telle quil la faudr...

Print shows four bare-bottomed men, the ministers of finances, sitting around a table restoring their good health on the produce of other nations; as they consume the "Eau de la Plata" and "Eau du Sénégal," the... More

A faut esperer q'eu se jeu la finira bentot

Print shows the nobility and the clergy, representing the estates general, riding on the back of a man representing the working class, or third estate; the man is bent under their weight and supports himself by... More

Le captif, grand ballon à vapeur, de la Place du Carrousel

Advertisement announcing Henri Giffard's captive balloon ascension at the Place du Carrousel, Paris. Describes Giffard's previous ascension at the Tuileries in 1878 and includes a picture of a captive balloon. ... More

[Petit Trianon, chamber of Marie Antoinette, Versailles, France]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "9833". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

Maria Antoinette Dauphine - Public domain portrait engraving

Print shows Marie Antoinette, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, wearing an elaborate necklace; in oval medallion with crown at top, roses on the left and lilies on the right, button with monogram MA a... More

Overheard in the "twilleries" - Drawing. Public domain image.

A young, slender woman wearing a hat with a cock's tail converses with an older, heavyset woman dressed in a hat, embellished with a sporran. They stand in the Tuileries, a public garden. Inscribed below title... More

La Bastille - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Morin.

Louis XVI, avoit mis le Bonnet rouge, il avoit crié vive la nation, .....

Louis XVI drinking toast to the nation after angry crowd invaded the palace and made the King put on the traditional revolutionary phrygian cap.

L'aristocratic écrasée. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a bust portrait of Louis XVI atop a pedestal with engraved text "A Louis XVI Pere des Français et Roi d'un peuple libre." A reclining female figure, aided by Father Time, is engraving text on plaque... More

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National A...

Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publis... More

Les deux ne font qu'un - A drawing of a goat and a goat in a field

Print shows Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as a two-headed monster pulling in opposite directions; Louis wears the horns of a cuckold and Marie Antoinette has the head of Medusa wearing ostrich feathers. de Vi... More

Expérience du globe aërostatique du MM. les freres Robert au Jardin de...

Print shows Anne-Jean and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, September 19, 1784, accompanied by Colin Hulin. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staf... More

Giuseppe Girolamo Lalande / Demarchi, dis. ; Bonini, inc.

Full-length portrait of French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lalande. Tissandier collection.

Compulsion pour ces gens que n'attend pas la libertie / TC.

Print shows a tattered group of soldiers, one with peg leg, following a cart drawn by hooded executioners; chains, an axe, and a gibbet are visible among the items in the cart. On the far right, a pile of dead ... More

Arriere garde du Pape, ou la frayer du reverend pere caporal

Print shows the ragged rear-guard troops of the Pope's army cowering as they retreat from the advancing French army lead by the handsome and well-dressed Napoleon Bonaparte emerging on the left through billowin... More

Serment du jeu de paume, à Versailles / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault...

Print shows a large group of people taking an oath at the tennis court, Versailles, during the French Revolution. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, che... More

Intérieur d'un comité révolutionnaire sous le régime de la terreur / F...

Print shows the interior of a room used by the Revolutionary committee during the Reign of Terror; citizens enter on the left and submit their appeals, then procede along the table where judgment is pronounced ... More

Le peuple sous l'ancien Regime - A drawing of a man being carried by a...

Cartoon shows Louis XVI, a bishop, and a member of the aristocracy riding on the back of a man, representing the people, who's blindfolded and in chains and crawling on his hands and knees. de Vinck, 10309 Pur... More

[Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic glob...

Drawing shows Jacques Charles and Nicolas Marie-Noel Robert standing in their hydrogen-filled balloon waving flags, beginning their ascent from the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, with the Versailles Palace in the ba... More

[Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic glob...

The genius of France extirpating despotism tyranny & oppression from t...

Cartoon shows a woman wearing a liberty cap, representing the genius of France, holding a cat-o'-nine-tails in one hand and the reins of a donkey in the other; on this donkey and another bucking in the backgrou... More

Bombardement de tous les trônes de l'Europe et la chûte des tirans pou...

Print shows members of the French National Assembly exposing their posteriors, from which streams labeled "Liberté ca ira" pour down on the heads of rulers of Europe, while Liberty ignites a cannon labeled "Vio... More

The contrast / R. Dighton, delin., British Cartoon Print

Political cartoon showing two men representing England and France seated and looking angrily at each other. The Frenchman is holding container (of snuff?) and the Englishman is smoking pipe and holding newspape... More

Commemoration de la prise de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1792 / Prieur ...

Print shows a large bonfire of items related to the nobility as part of the celebration commemorating the fall of the Bastille. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution ... More

Charles aux Thuillieries [i.e., Tuileries] le 1r decembre MDCCLXXXIII ...

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. Includes balloon in background and large bird in foreground. Tissandier c... More

A republican belle - a picture of Paris for 1794 / IC., British Cartoo...

Print shows an old woman, a sansculotte, in ragged dress, her arms folded across her chest, holding a pistol in one hand, which she fires at a man lying on the ground, and a dagger in the other. There is a skul... More

Excise inquisition erecting by English slaves under the scourge of the...

A British satire on an attempt by William Pitt and George Rose to transfer to excise law certain import duties; standing in opposition is Edward Thurlow. The central image shows Britannia, wrapped in a blanket ... More

Experience du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert au Jardin de...

Le jeu de quilles - A drawing of a man in a blue coat and a man in a p...

Print shows a member of the nobility complaining to a member of the clergy, representing the estates general, while a member of the working class, or third estate, bowling in the background, appears to be monop... More

Jean Paul Marat, né à Genève l'an 1743, député du dépt. de Paris à la ...

Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Representing Revolution : French & British Images, 1789-1804" at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachuset... More

L'Ordre et la marche des puissances coalisees contre la France / compo...

Print shows an allegorical female figure riding in a chariot drawn by mules with the crowned heads of kings of various European countries; it is following three hags leading the way to the temple of folly in th... More

Vie de Bonaparte, premier Consul de la République française / dessiné ...

Print shows twenty-four numbered scenes depicting events in the life of Napoleon I. Scene number two shows Napoleon with his sword endeavoring to cut a hole in a balloon in which he was not allowed to ascend. ... More

[Aristocrats digging the Champ-de-Mars]

Print shows well-dressed aristocratic women, children, some men, and members of the clergy digging and hauling soil in wheelbarrows in a effort to transform the Champ-de-Mars into a suitable place for the festi... More

Le ballon captif de la cour des Tuileries, construit par M. Giffard, i...

Broadside announcing one of Henri Giffard's balloon ascensions in 1878 and 1879 from the courtyard of the Tuileries, Paris. Includes picture of the captive balloon floating over the courtyard. Tissandier collection.

Grand ballon captif a vapeur de la cour des Tuileries / Yves & Barret,...

Broadside announcing the ascension of Henri Giffard's giant captive balloon from the courtyard of the Tuileries, Paris, probably during the Paris Exposition of 1878. Includes picture of the giant balloon statio... More

Sunday afternoon in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0060.10). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Louis XVI, King of France, full-length portrait, standing, facing lef...

Salon des Armées, réservé aux artistes du front. Au profit des oeuvres...

A soldier holding a small wooden statue of winged victory that he has been carving. In 1916, the Ministry of Beaux-Arts and the Ministry of War promised artists serving in the war, that their work would be ... More

Assassinat de J.P. Marat, le 13 Juillet 1793, ou 25 Messidor, an 1er d...

Print shows Jean Paul Marat, lying down in his bath after being stabbed by Charlotte Corday, surrounded by six men, Charlotte Corday with knife in her hand, and another woman. Plate from: Collection complète d... More

Il 18. brumale, anno VIII - A drawing of an elephant and people in a r...

Italian print published on the occasion of Napoleon's coming to power in France, November 9, 1799, following his successful campaign in Egypt. Image depicts France as a giant sphinx wearing the cap of Liberty a... More

The christian amazon, with her invincible target, Alias, the focus of ...

Cartoon shows Catherine II, as an amazon with sword raised and bearing a shield emblazoned with double-headed eagle, battling the Sultan, Selim III, attacking with a rifle fixed with bayonet; Joseph II, an ally... More

Un Sans culotte instrument de crimes dansant au milieu de horreurs ...

Print shows a sansculotte waving banner labeled "Fête du 21 Janvier" at a female figure labeled "Humanité"; in the background is a scene of murder and mayhem. Satire on the death of Louis XVI. Forms part of: F... More

Premier hommage des Habitans de Paris á la Famille Royale le mercredi ...

The royal family--Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their children. Translated title: First hommage of the people of Paris to the Royal Family, Wednesday, October 7, 1789, the day after his happy arrival in thi... More

Mr. Fitzherbert the British minister plenipotentiary, with Gravier de ...

Engraved for Raymond's history of England. Illus. in: A new, universal and impartial history of England ... to the spring of the year 1784 ... / by George Frederick Raymond, Esq.... London : Printed for J. Coo... More

Laurent Guyot - La verite triomphante, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows, on the upper right, Jacques Necker wearing a toga and standing on clouds above a wall or sarcophagus, holding aloft with his left hand a bust portrait of Louis XVI, and holding at his right shoulde... More

France. Britain. Freedom. Slavery, British Cartoon Print

"A design in two compartments. On the left the triumph of Necker in a land of 'Freedom', in the other that of Pitt in a land of 'Slavery"..." (Source: George) [Gillray]. Price 2sh. This record contains unverifi... More

Adieu Bastille - A drawing of a man in a red coat and a lion

Print shows a man playing a bagpipe, behind him lies a lion on a chain which is draped over his right arm, his left foot rests on a gameboard, at the far end of which is a peg with string attached, the string r... More

Chasse à la grosse bête - A drawing of an elephant attacking a man on ...

Print shows members of a citizen's militia attacking and severing heads of a great beast, the many-headed Hydra of despotism. The Bastille appears under siege in the background. Includes a long caption, "Couple... More

Il voudrait abbattre ce qui les soutient

Print shows, on the far left, Louis XVI sitting on a throne on a raised pedestal with Jacques Necker at the base holding balance scales and appealing for justice. At center, the clergy, the parliament, and the ... More

Portrait d'aprés nature du Sr. Humbert, Compagnon Horloger, natif de L...

Print shows Sr. Humbert and Sr. Harné, a grenadier in the French Guards, leaders, respectively, of the second and first assaults on the Bastille, 14 July 1789, half-length portrait, facing each other, each in o... More

Liste de MM les Deputes de la noblesse de Paris

Aristocrats in carriage drawn by two lions on their way to Versailles for the meeting of the Estates General; fierce lion at front; figure of the Republic with club on high platform behind; list of the deputies... More

Frontispiece to Reflections on the French revolution, British Cartoon ...

Print shows Edmund Burke on bended knee as though proposing to a vision which appears before him of Marie Antoinette, while a cherub touches his head with a firebrand emitting the sparks of romance. Includes e... More

L'Anarchiste. Je les trompe tous deux / Son. Petit, peintre, sculpsit.

Two faced figure of anarchist deceiving figures representing Republicans and Jacobins.

Attaque de la Convention Nationale ; journée mémorable du 13 Vendémiai...

Print shows an uprising in Paris on October 5, 1795 on the rue Saint-Honoré, in front of the Church of Saint-Roch, between factions after the vote on the constitution was announced. Plate from: Collection comp... More

Arrestation de Mr. de Launay, gouverneur de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet...

Print shows a mob of revolutionaries after the storming the Bastille, when late in the afternoon, Governor De Launay, of the Bastille, is arrested and taken away, on the lower left, at the beginning of the Revo... More

Pompe funebre de Mirabeau, le 4 Avril 1791 Prieur inv. & del. ; Bertha...

Print shows the interior of the church of Saint-Eustache in Paris, France, during the funeral of the comte de Mirabeau, with members of the Garde nationale shooting rifles in salute, and in the background, cler... More

Éxperience du globe ae̋rostatique du MM. Charles et Robert, au Jardin ...

[Tribute to French ballonist Henri Giffard in the form of a handwritte...

Tribute written by Mr. Wrabelly of Hungary, town of Pressbourg (Bratislava), on the occasion of seeing the giant Giffard balloon exhibited in the Tuileries gardens during his visit to the World Exposition held ... More

[Court scene, possibly during the reign of terror, with the accused ma...

Trimmed to within plate mark on right side. Gift; Mrs. Maria G. Venn; 1950 March 22.

Taming of the shrew: -Katharine & Petruchio; -The modern Quixotte, or,...

Cartoon shows Catherine II, faint and shying away from William Pitt, who appears as Petruchio, and Don Quixote on horseback (a lean and scarred George III whose authority has been usurped by Pitt), seated behin... More

Tuileries from the Louvre / E. Baldus.

In album: Vues de Paris et ses environs en photographies, p. 13.

Prise de la Bastille par les Citoyens de Paris...; C'est ainsi que l'o...

Citizens with guns and pikes outside of the Bastille, July 14, 1789, and heads of "traitors" being carried on pikes. Translated titles: The taking of the Bastille by the citizens of Paris...; The traitors are ... More

Grand ballon captif a vapeur de la cour des Tuileries, Paris, 1878 / Y...

Broadside announcing the ascension of Henri Giffard's giant captive balloon from the courtyard of the Tuileries during the Paris Exposition of 1878. Includes picture of the giant balloon stationed at the center... More

John Bull fighting the French single handed / P.F.L.B. fecit., British...

Print shows John Bull rapping a French soldier on the head with a cudgel, stomping on a French officer with his right foot, and using his left foot to kick the French nobility out of England and back to France ... More

[3 orders proceeding to Versailles, May 1789]

Print shows ornate carriage in which are riding well-dressed people with horns growing out of their heads. The carriage is drawn by two horned deer; standing on a platform at the rear is a women holding a baton... More

Fraternité des Soldats de la Garde Prisienne des Dragons et du Regimen...

Cartoon about the French Revolution. Title translated: The fraternity of soldiers of the Parisienne Guard, the Dragoons, and the Regiment of Flanders with the body guards at the time of their arrival in Paris ... More

L'espoir de la France / N. Trevisiani del. ; Verité sulpsit [sic].

Allegorical print showing Father Time parting the stormy skies of recent days to reveal Louis XVI eagerly accepting the truth offered by Justice and the arrival of Jacques Necker, recalled on 16 July 1789, as F... More

Le demenagement du clergé J'ai perdu mes benefices, rien n'égale ma do...

Print shows a group of ecclesiastical figures departing a church with what remains of their belongings (following the November 1789 decree by the National Assembly regarding church property); at the center of t... More

Bénédiction des drapeaux de la Garde Nationale Parisienne a Notre Dame...

Print shows the blessing of the flags of the National Guard of Paris in the Notre Dame Cathedral, at the beginning of the Revolution in 1789. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de ... More

Valeur des assignats et autres papiers monnoies / J. Benizy dit Dubuis...

Print shows a trompe-l'oeil presentation of many French revolutionary "assignats", or paper money, in various demoninations, issued between 1789 and 1795. Caption continues: Depuis l'époque de leur emission en... More

Fidélité au Roi - A painting of a group of men in uniform

Print shows soldiers swearing loyalty to the French king. Translated title: Loyalty to the king. Déposé á la direction de l'Imprimerie Royale &c. Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).

Franklin's reception at the court of France, 1778. Respectfully dedica...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin receiving a laurel wreath upon his head. From left to right, some of the members of the French court include: Duchesse Jules de Polignac, Princesse Lamballe (holding flowers), Dia... More

Triomphe de Marat - A drawing of a group of people holding signs

Jean Paul Marat with crown of laurel leaves carried on shoulders of man around whom others are crowded; celebrating his acquittal by Revolutionary Tribunal.