Exit libertè a la francois!—or—buonaparte closing the farce of egalitè, at st. Cloud near paris novr. 10th. 1799 / js. Gillray inv' & f'. Summary: british satire shows napoleon with his grenadiers driving the members of the council of five hundred from the orangery at st. Cloud at bayonet point. A drum is labeled "vive la liberte," and papers under foot read "resignation des directoires" and "un liste de membres du conseil des cinque cents. " on november 10, 1799, in a move known as the coup d'état of eighteenth brumaire, napoleon seized control of the french government and installed himself as first consul, thereafter governing as a dictator. James gillray was the dominant caricaturist of his period, producing popular savage cartoons of the english court of george iii and later of napoleon and the french revolution. Medium: 1 print: etching, hand-colored; 25. 2 × 36 cm (sheet)
created/published: [london]: publishd by h. Humphrey 27 st. James's street, 1799 novr. 21st. Notes:
title from item. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the british museum. Division i, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9426
forms part of: art wood collection of caricature and cartoon (library of congress). Forms part of: british cartoon prints collection (library of congress). Unprocessed in wood/gillray. 118
hoff, syd. Editorial and political cartooning, p. 38; parton, james, caricature and other comic art, p. 153, 267–68 — ljr. Date: 1 November 1799.
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