Excerpt from Symbol and Satire in the French Revolution

More interesting in their wealth of symbols than even the speeches and writings of the time are the pictorial satires and allegories, great numbers of which have been preserved. They are documents of real historical importance and have hitherto been much neglected. They reveal the spirit of the time as no mere printed words could ever do. They are products of this special revolution, for nothing like them had ever been known before. They filled a real need, for they appealed even to the illiterate, and three fourths of the population of France at that time could neither read nor write. They show us the Revolution as it was shown to the common man of the period.

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