Primary Source 19.4: Contrasting Visions of the Sans-Culottes

These two images offer profoundly different representations of a sans-culotte woman. The image on the left was created by a French artist, while the image on the right is English. The French words above the image on the right read in part, “Heads! Blood! Death! … I am the Goddess of Liberty! … Long Live the Guillotine!”

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(Bibliothèque nationale de France)
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(Bibliothèque nationale de France)

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