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Malbrouke
Peel 1692
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Library's copy closely trimmed with loss to image and imprint.
Summary:
Print shows five French citizens, variously depicted as sans culottes and revolutionaries, dancing with glee at the news that the King has been arrested at Varennes and proclaiming lines from the popular song "Malbrouke", or "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre"; a woman second from the left hitches up her skirt and urinates as a man second from the right, wear breeches torn away at the rear, dances as he defacates. A newspaper lies on the ground in the foreground, reading: Gazette / le roi / est arreté / [struck out] / á Varenne.
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