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Title: Symbol and satire in the French Revolution
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg), 1861-1928
Subjects: Caricatures and cartoons
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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.Before consecration each bishop, and each cure orparish priest, was to take the civic oath; the salar-ies were to be fixed by law, which meant that, ingeneral, they would be vastly reduced. The result of the passing of these laws by theNational Assembly was utterly to disrupt theclergy. The allegiance to the Pope was not some-thing that could be put on or taken off like an oldglove. And new candidates would have to accepttheir election from bodies composed, as often as not,of Jews and Protestants as well as Catholics. Wehave a cartoon where a member of the clergy isasking himself in desperation, What am I? By November, 1790, 130 bishops and 46,000cures had refused to adhere to the new order ofthings and take the oath required of them. TheAssembly then began a policy of reprisal and laidheavy penalties on disobedience: deprivation ofoffice and prosecution as disturbers of the peace.About one third of the total number were cowed Plate 70, p. 149. JleMir (/e iLdl4c M ,/>-■ --nn P^e
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Plate 71. A cartoon showing the proper treatment for an Abbe who will not take the civic oath. The mother applauds the castigation. 151 152 The French Revolution into acquiescence by such measures, but the restprepared for an all the more bitter fight. Louis XVI himself did not dare to veto the civilconstitution. In his last will and testament hewas to express his regret for having given it hissanction. He wrote to the Pope, now, how scan-dalized he was at the measure and how he was sign-ing it with death in his heart. He would rather,he declared, be king of Metz than king of France. In a matter that aroused such fierce passions asthis, it was only to be expected that the cartoonistsshould be active, though the productions of courseare all one-sided. In one entitled The return ofAbbe M. to his father, we have the patriotic oldman, with the cap of liberty on his head, soundlythrashing his cowering son, the abbe, who hasrefused to take the civic oath. From the windowabove, the mother lo

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