Avis aux Peuples sur les Rois: La Roche Tarpéienne est pres du Capitole

Date: 1870s
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  • Avis aux Peuples sur les Rois: La Roche Tarpéienne est pres du Capitole
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  • Warning to the People in the Roads: The Tarpeian Rock is Near the Capitol
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  • 187X
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  • This is a political caricature related to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 or the Paris Commune of 1871. Caption: "Voyez au pilori ces potentats sans coeurs! Dont l'un vendit a l'autre la France, et son exemple fort suivi, ce fut un marché de voleurs ils en rient en dessous...je crois bien va bon peuple, c'est toi qui payera." Caption (English translation): "Look at these despots without hearts at the pillory! One has sold France to the other, and his example was much followed, it was a market of thieves. They laugh in their underwear ... I believe it is you, good people, who will pay."
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  • Hand-colored lithograph
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  • 1968-001a, Drawer M.10, Item 564
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