A History of Western Society: Printed Page 630
A History of Western Society, Concise Edition: Printed Page 630
Chapter Chronology
These two images offer profoundly different representations of a sans-culotte woman. The first image below was created by a French artist, while the second image below 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!”
(Musée de la Ville de Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France/Bridgeman Images)