Wednesday, August 29, 2012

"Les Cochons"

The dehumanizing of the Royal Family. To quote Vive la Reine:
One of the most common ways to attack the royal family, particularly common after the flight of 1791, was to turn them into animals. Animal caricatures were not only a humiliation, but a way to dehumanize the king and his family—or anyone else the author needed to attack. The following is an abridged excerpt from “Description of the Royal Menagerie of Living Animals… Established at the Tuileries.” (Read entire post.)
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