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Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.

English families taken as hostages in the French Revolution, imprisoned in the orphanage of Arras. Engraving by P. Maxell, 1802, after T. Snagg.

The head of King Louis XVI being cut off by a guillotine. Etching by James Gillray, 1793.

A mock escutcheon for a united, British republican college of health practitioners; representing British debate over the French Revolution. Coloured etching, 1798.

The Bastille, Paris. Line engraving by J.F. Borgnet after J.M. Gudin (?).

Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, with his mistress, both represented as chickens. Etching, 1791.

French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Stipple engraving by C.F.G. Levachez and etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux, 1798.

Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.

The assassination of the Deputy Jean-Bertrand Féraud in the National Convention, Paris, in 1795. Aquatint by J. Card.

École de Médecine, Paris. Lithograph.

The family on trial in revolutionary France / Suzanne Desan.

Reclaiming the sacred : lay religion and popular politics in revolutionary France / Suzanne Desan.

Cabanis, un idéologue : de Mirabeau à Bonaparte / Yves Pouliquen.

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École de Médecine, Paris. Lithograph.

The family on trial in revolutionary France / Suzanne Desan.

Reclaiming the sacred : lay religion and popular politics in revolutionary France / Suzanne Desan.

Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, with his mistress, both represented as chickens. Etching, 1791.

Cabanis, un idéologue : de Mirabeau à Bonaparte / Yves Pouliquen.