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Triomphe de l'Armeé Parisienne réunis au Peuple a son retour de Versai...

Cartoon referring to "October Days." Translated title: Triumphant Parisian army reunites with the people on its return from Versailles to Paris, October 6, 1789. Possibly purchased from William Holland in 1790... More

Le cric de la France - A drawing of a woman holding a shield and shiel...

Allegorical print shows a female figure representing France wearing a helmet, breastplate, and shield emblazoned with fleur-de-lis, and holding a spear which rests on a liberty cap on the ground; she is turning... More

[L'homme aux assignats] - A group of men standing next to each other

Print shows a man, possibly Armand-Gaston Camus, wearing a garment fashioned entirely from "assignats" (French paper money before the livre), several men (identified by number in the caption) are standing aroun... More

[Trompe-l'oeil of French revolutionary assignats with a portrait of a ...

Print shows a trompe-l'oeil presentation of many French revolutionary assignats in various demoninations, issued between 1789 and 1795, with a full-length portrait of an old man, possibly a beggar, facing left,... More

[The plundering of the King's cellar, Paris, 10th August, 1793 (i.e., ...

Engraving after contemporary history genre painting depicting events in Paris, France, on August 10th 1792 [date as given in title is incorrect], in particular, the aftermath of the storming of the Tuileries Pa... More

Seconds voyageurs aëriens, ou expérience de MM. Charles et Robert fait...

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; inset map shows locati... More

La Nation française assisteé de Mr. De la Fayette terrasse le despotis...

Marquis de Lafayette assisting the French nation (Marie) trampling figure in sarcophagus with wings and hair of snakes while nude figure is attached by serpents. Possibly purchased by George IV from William Ho... More

Charles aux Thuilleries [i.e., Tuileries] le 1e decembre 1783 / P.G. T...

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 banner with caption "Jusq'alors san égal, le monarque des airs, y... More

Smelling out a rat; or the atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his ...

Print shows Richard Price seated at a desk, he turns to look over his right shoulder at a vision of an enormous Edmund Burke, his spectacles, nose, and hands emerge from the haze, a crown in one hand and a cros... More

Reponce à l'auteur de la chronique, qui appelle bombe la bulle du Pape...

Print shows the Pope sitting on the right blowing bubbles representing Papal briefs condemning members of the clergy who took the oath to the new civil constitution, and on the left, an allegorical figure repre... More

End of the Irish Invasion : - or - the Destruction of the French Armad...

French warships, labeled Le Révolutionaire, L'Egalité and The Revolutionary Jolly Boat, being tossed about during a storm blown up by Pitt, Dundas, Grenville and Windham, whose heads appear from the clouds. Cha... More

Attaque de la convention nationale ; journée mémorable du 13 vendémiai...

Print shows battle scene on Paris street during the attack on the National Convention. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Auber, 1804, no. 129. de ... More

Fr. Chaussier, professeur à la faculté de médecine de Paris, ... membr...

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Francois Chaussier, who conducted some of the first experiments to develop navigational systems for balloons. Tissandier collection.

Vue de la salle de Walse construite au carré de la laiterie (soixante ...

Print shows celebrations for the anniversary of the founding of the French Republic, July 14, 1801 in two images, including a tent for dancing and a balloon ascension from which André Jacques Garnerin descends ... More

Pillage de la Maison de St. Lazare, le lundi 13 Juillet 1789 / Prieur ...

Print shows a mob of French citizens looting the Maison de St. Lazare at the beginning of the Revolution in 1789. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Par... More

Fête des victoires, combat des jeunes élèves au Champ de Mars. Le 21 O...

Print shows a victory celebration festival with a reenactment of a battle on the 21st of October 1794 Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la Révolution Française. Paris : Chez Auber, 18... More

Premiere séance de l'institut National ; le 15 Germinal, An 4eme de la...

Print shows a large group of men seated in two u-shaped rows along the sides and back of a large hall with a barrel ceiling and with statuary in alcoves set off by columns, a crowded third row of standing-room-... More

Retour de Varennes. Arrivée de Louis Capet à Paris, le 25 Juin 1791 Pr...

Print shows a royal coach carrying Louis XVI and his family on their return to Paris after their aborted flight to freedom; three men riding on the front of the coach appear to be under arrest as well; large nu... More

Fédération générale faite à Paris, le 14 Juillet 1790 / Prieur inv. & ...

Print shows the first festival of federation, a celebration organized to commemorate the fall of the Bastille and to express French unity under the revolution; shows a large triumphal arch at left center, a cer... More

Translation de Louis seize et de sa famille au temple le 13 Aoust 1792...

Print shows French soldiers and citizens escorting Louis XVI and the royal family in a carriage to the temple on August 13, 1792.

The genius of France nursing her darling / T.B.:-d-lle delt., British ...

Cartoon showing France, a savage virago, dandling a tiny Napoleon seated on her hand and wearing a royal robe over his military dress. Above her head she holds a rattle with bells surmounted by a crown. She gri... More

Triomphe de Voltaire, le 11 Juillet 1791 Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthaul...

Print shows a funeral procession moving Voltaire's remains to the Panthéon in Paris from an abbey in Champagne. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez ... More

Banque, Bourse et palais du Lord Maire, Londres The bank, the exchange...

Print shows a view of the Tuileries Palace with the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and a large plaza with pedestrians and carriages in the foreground. Signed on stone on lower right: Tuonra [Arnout spelled backwards].

Paris moderne. Les Tuileries, le Louvre, et la rue de Rivoli, vue pris...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. No. 5 handwritten at bottom of print Plate from Souvenirs de Paris et de ses environs. Monuments et sites les plus remarquables, dessinés d'après na... More

Le grand ballon captif des Tuileries / Yves & Barret, sc.

Broadside announcing Henri Giffard's captive balloon ascension in the courtyard of the Tuileries, Paris. Includes picture of passengers in the basket of the giant balloon. Tissandier collection.

[Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York - interiors: Marie Antoinette room]

Photo copyrighted by Geo. C. Boldt. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Ouverture des Etats-généraux á Versailles (5 Mai 1789) / peint par Cou...

The States General at Versailles, France. Printed at top left: Galrie. histque. de Versailles. Printed at top center: 455. Printed at top right: Sie. IV. Printed at bottom: Dessiné par Sandoz ; Diagraphe et Pa... More

The French revolution: scene in the throne-room of the Tuileries, Feby...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2318

Wha wants me, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Thomas Paine, full-length, standing, facing left, holding scroll "rights of man", surrounded by injustices and standing on labels, representing morals and justices, defending measures taken in revol... More

Arret du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, September 28, 1788, Prohibition of For...

Prohibition of Foreign Fish Oils; Printed in French

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

Défaite des contre révolutionnaires, commandés par le petit Condé

Print shows the retreating counterrevolutionary army of the Prince de Condé following its failed attempt to restore the monarchy in France. Among the caricatured cast of counterrevolutionaries forming Condé's a... More

Revolution, or Johnny Bull in France

Print shows a large bull labeled "Tiers Etat - Orleans" referring to Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'Orleans, tossing Marie Antoinette into the air as Louis XVI kneels in prayer on the left; standing behind the bu... More

Seconds voyageurs aëriens, ou expérience de MM. Charles et Robert fait...

Précis du traité de paix, signé à Versailles le 3 Septembre 1783 / N. ...

Print shows ten battle scenes from the American revolutionary war, from the battle of Trenton in December 1776 to the victory of Comte de Grimouard, commander of the Scipion, in the West Indies in November 1782... More

Nouvelle place de la Bastille - A drawing of a man holding a baby in f...

Cartoon shows Louis XVI standing on a pedestal with one foot on the hydra of despotism(?) from which five of seven heads have been severed; on the left, a clergyman offers him a gold coin, and on the right, a S... More

Jean Paul Marat / L.A. Claessens, sculp.

Print shows Jean Paul Marat, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval above nameplate.

La Romaine Aristocatique. Le Marc d'Argent preside en France ...

Monstrous looking man holding up man on scale, 2 other men and a pig. (DLC/PP-1983:172.9) This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Librar... More

Il faut faire 3 choses - A drawing of three men standing next to each ...

Print shows figures of the estates general; a member of the clergy and a nobleman each place a hand on short pillar labeled "Je tien mon pied de bœuf"; a peasant, representing the third estate, places both of h... More

Anecdote arrivée á Louis XVI, quelques jours aprés sa residence á Pari...

Scene in Paris plaza between King Louis XVI and a boy begging for money. The boy calls the king Monsieur le Chevalier but is directed to call him "l'aine de la famille" [family elder] by another man in the stre... More

[Double profile portrait of the Montgolfier brothers, French balloonis...

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charles aux Thuilleries [i.e. Tuileries] le 1er decembre 1783

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. "Jusq'alors san égal, le monarque des airs, y suivit son rival" printed b... More

Maria Antoinette, Queen of France / Leney sc.

Print shows Marie Antoinette, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing a cameo necklace and a hat with feathers or feathers in her hair; in oval medallion. Trimmed to within plate mark. Lacking publication ... More

Proclamation de la Constitution, place du Marché des Innocens, le 14 s...

Print shows a large crowd hearing the news that the new constitution is proclaimed, substantially reducing the power of the monarchy. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révol... More

Oup...oup...ça n'ira pas Ah! ça ira...ça ira. Les aristocrates a la ra...

Print shows Maximilien Robespierre playing a fiddle and dancing with a small dog, identified as Jean-Lambert Tallien, dancing to the music.

Par autorisation de M. Le Maire de la ville de Rouen. Le Sieur Bollé, ...

Text-only broadside announcing a balloon ascension at the Place de la Cathd́rale, Rouen, France. Tissandier collection.

[Petit Trianon, the Pavillion and the Rock of Marie Antoinette, Versai...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "9835". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

Mort de Louis XVI, le 21 janvier 1793 Place de la Concorde - on voit à...

Louis XVI being led to the guillotine at the time of his execution. Extrait des Révolutions de Paris. In album: French Revolution. Forms part of: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress).

[The Tuileries and Champs Elysees, Paris, France]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "9812". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

Antoine Francois Callet - Maria Antoinette, Queen of France

Print shows Marie Antoinette, full-length studio portrait, facing front with her head turned to the left, looking over right shoulder, wearing a large gown and feathered headdress. D8531 U.S. Copyright Office. ... More

[Sheet of playing cards, "Jeu de drapeaux" (i.e., game of flags)]

Playing cards, titled in French, show soldiers of France, Germany, Great Britain, and Russia, bearing flags which show the card's suit and rank.

[The Tuileries garden, Paris, France] view, photochrome print postcard...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "9811". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

Charon's Boat - or - the Ghosts of "all the Talents" taking their last...

A group of naked Whig politicians, including three Grenvilles, Sheridan, St. Vincent, Moira, Temple, Erskine, Howick, Petty, Whitbread, Sheridan, Windham,and Tomline, Bishop of Lincoln, crossing the river Styx ... More

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

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

Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man...

Print shows Edmund Burke sitting at a desk on a crescent moon, holding a quill pen, an open "pamphlet" and an inkwell are on the desk, broken chains hang from his wrists; a scene on the front of the desk, label... More

The heroic Charlotte la Cordé, upon her trial,... / Js. Gy., desn. et ...

"The interior of the Revolutionary Tribunal crowded with figures. Charlotte Corday (right) stands at the bar, a raised circular stone platform, her wrists linked by a chain, addressing her judges (left), who li... More

Ascent of the 19th September, 1783, at Versailles

Montgolfier brothers before King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; balloon ascension, France. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. ... More

Paris, les Tuileries - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Fraipont, Gustave.

L'homme au masque de fer - Political cartoon, public domain image

Print shows a prisoner in chains and wearing an iron mask sitting on a bench in a prison cell, and another man with a lantern and a tray of food entering the cell in the Bastille. Possibly purchased by George ... More

Monsr. Garnerin, the intrepid aeronaut, engraving, Library of Congress

Oval head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist and parchutist A.J. Garnerin. Tissandier collection.

L'Attaque de la constitution - A painting of a group of people on a be...

Cartoon showing clergy, nobility, and fugitive counterrevolutionaries, carrying flags labeled "Vive la noblesse et le Clerge", "Lettre Pastorale", and "Voincre ou Courir", attacking a rock, identified as the "C... More

D'Aguesseau sauve la France pendant la famine 1709 / Desfontaines delt...

Henri-François d'Aguesseau authorizing the removal of grain from a storage facility during the famine of 1709. Illus. in: Portraits des grands hommes, femmes illustres, et sujets mémorables de France : gravés e... More

Hell broke loose, or, The murder of Louis, vide, the account of that u...

Print shows the execution of Louis XVI, King of France, January 21, 1793, by guillotine as citizen Louis Capet. Devils stand on the platform as well as fly overhead, suggesting that the beheading of Louis, with... More

The martydom of Louis XVI, King of France - I forgive my enemies, I di...

Print shows Louis XVI standing, with a dramatic pose, next to a guillotine. Includes description of the mechanics of the guillotine.

L'Intérieur du comité révolutionnaire. Scène derniere

Print shows two men pointing out others among a group of revolutionaries to be arrested, perhaps as a backlash to the reign of terror instigated by Robespierre and his followers. Overlooking the scene from a sh... More

Cloture de la salle des Jacobins, dans la nuit du 27 au 28 Juillet 179...

Title translated: Closing of the hall of the Jacobins, in the night of the 27th or 28th July 1794 or 9 or 10th Thermidor year 2 of the Republic. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques ... More

Supplice de Louis XVI, Place de la Révolution, le 21 Janvier 1793; ou ...

Print shows French soldiers, some on horseback, and citizens gathered around the platform where Louis XVI stands before the guillotine on the day of his execution. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux ... More

Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus

Print shows the Prince de Condé as Don Quixote on a white horse and vicomte de Mirabeau (Mirabeau Tonneau) as Sancho Panza riding on a barrel-shaped ass on wheels, surrounded by a ragged group of counterrevolut... More

Vive le roi, vive la nation J'savois ben qu'jaurions not tour.

Print shows a well-dressed peasant woman nursing an infant, riding on the back of a noblewoman who is holding onto the shoulders of a nun, representing the clergy. This cartoon presents a realingment of the Est... More

Allegorie dèdiè au tiers etat - A drawing of a group of men standing n...

Print shows an allegorical scene with a member of the nobility and a member of the clergy, representing the estates general, helping to hold aloft a large heart-shaped frame, which rests on the back of a man re... More

[Avenue de la opera (i.e. Rue de Rivoli) and the garden of the Tuileri...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "17314". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Fran... More

Franklin's first audience before King Louis XVI, at Versailles. March ...

G6102 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 32. Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Great monster, Republican, having traversed great part of Europe--...

Political cartoon showing France as a monster, with one foot on Switzerland, facing Britannia with lion, saying, "All de nations in Europe has accepted de liberty, la François - ... We will come and plant the t... More

[Flight of the Empress Eugénie from the Tuileries] / André Castaigne.

(DLC/PP-1934:0097). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Eugénie's month of memories" in Ladies home journal, 31:16 (Jan. 1914). BAR updated record 1989-1994.

Mirabeau arrive aux Champs Élisées / J.M. Moreau le Jne. inv. ; F.J. M...

Print shows Mirabeau at center arriving at the Champs Élisées where he hands a copy of the French Constitution to J.J. Rousseau as Benjamin Franklin reaches to place a wreath on his head; in the left background... More

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

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

L'aristocratic écrasée - Public domain scan / engraving

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

Charon's Boat - or - the Ghosts of "all the Talents" taking their last...

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

Sous la gloire des augustes maisons de nos princes, Minerve deésse pro...

Print shows Minerva, gazing fondly heavenward, standing on the top level of a tiered checkerboard, holding a pike with banner and a shield with the likeness of Medusa on it; in a pastoral setting is a member of... More

Air-balloons / A. Bell, sculpt.

Book illustration shows five early balloon ascensions in France: two Montgolfier balloons (Fauxbourg St. Antoine and St. Germain); a 1784 balloon of Jean-Pierre Blanchard; and a Charles and Robert balloon being... More

An escape a la Francois! - Public domain dedication image

"A burlesque representation of the flight to Varennes; the royal family in a two-wheeled carriage drawn (left to right) by four galloping horses with two postilions..." (Source: George)

La plaisanterie confondüe ou les intrépides voyageurs

Reveil du Tiers Etat, ma feinte, il doit tems que je me revillise, car...

Clergyman and aristocrat recoiling from figure representing Third Estate, who is picking up chains and guns; storming of the Bastille in background.

The right honourable the Marquis De La Fayette, unanimouslly chosen co...

Print shows Marquis de Lafayette, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, wearing uniform; in oval. Includes four lines of verse "translated from the French of the Chev. P. de Berainville" below ima... More

View of the triumphal arch and colonnade, erected in Boston / engrav'd...

Print shows an arch spanning the street in front of the state house in Boston, Massachusetts, in honor of George Washington's visit in October 1789. Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of... More

Baron du Pont Duchambon, elève du roi à l'École royale militaire de Pa...

Half-length portrait of Baron Du Pont Duchambon with balloon in background. Tissandier collection.

Assemblée nationale, abandon de tous les privileges, à Versailles scea...

Print shows the Assemblée nationale meeting in a large room with amphitheater seating as members of the clergy and the nobility come forward to renounce their priviledges. No. 4 from the series "Principales Jo... More

Le Fevre / peint d'après nature par Mengelberg et gravé par G. Fiesing...

Pierre-François-Joseph Lefebvre, Duc de Dantzi, French soldier, Marshall of the Empire, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left.

French happiness - English misery / IC.

Print shows, on the left, four ragged and starving sansculottes fighting over a frog, a cat has dropped dead at their feet, and scenes of death in the background; on the right, a scene in an English tavern with... More

Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778

Head and shoulders portrait, facing left. Engraving by P.G. Langlois. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Pub. Ind.

[Du pain et la constitution de LXXXXIII] / dessiné par C. Monnet ; gra...

Print shows the Assemblée nationale législative meeting in a large room crowded with French citizens, many of them armed with swords and pikes, one holding aloft a victim's head on a pike, another firing a rifl... More

New morality; or The promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Th...

Print shows French politician and Theophilanthropist Louis Marie la Révellière-Lépaux standing on a three-legged stool perched upon a stone dais reading Religion de la N[ature] to surrounding caricatures of peo... More

Robespierre amené blessé, dans l'anti-salle du comité de Salut public ...

Maximilien Robespierre, laying wounded on a table in the anteroom of the Committee of Public Safety. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Auber, 1804, no. 107.

Pillage de la Maison de St. Lazare, le lundi 13 Juillet 1789 / [Prieur...

Print shows a mob of French citizens looting the Maison de St. Lazare at the beginning of the Revolution in 1789. Trimmed to edge of image, to include title, but not artist statements. Illustration from: Colle... More

Prise de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1789 Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthaul...

Print shows a mob of revolutionaries storming the Bastille at the beginning of the Revolution in 1789. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Au... More