The French Revolution As Blasphemy

This is a book about two paintings that were meant to turn the English against the French Revolution by showing its worst excesses--a world in which religious piety and racial, class, and gender hierarchies are turned upside down.

Illustrations

xi

(10)

Preface

xxi

Introduction

1

(6)

1 A Checkered Career

7

(9)

2 The Journee of August 10, 1792

16

(32)

3 A Modern Bacchanal: Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris

48

(24)

4 The Furies of Hell: Celebrating over the Bodies of the Swiss Soldiers

72

(33)

5 Thesis and Antithesis: An Antiheroic Art

105

(23)

6 Counterrevolutionary Propaganda

128

(14)

7 Religious Transcendence

142

(13)

Appendix: Catalogue of Zoffany's Paintings of the French Revolution

155

(4)

Notes

159

(32)

Selected Bibliography

191

(12)

Index

203

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The French Revolution As Blasphemy

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