La représentation de la République française à travers les gravures satiriques et la presse quotidienne anglaise
In: Annales historiques de la Révolution Française, Band 289, Heft 1, S. 367-381
ISSN: 1952-403X
Pascal Dupuy and Caroline Bourgeois : The Representation of the French Republic in English Satirical Prints (1792-1799) and the English Daily Press (1792-1793).
The theme of the republic is very much present in the English press and in the abundant production of satirical prints during the political debate of the early 1790s in Great Britain. The radicals and the opposition were accused of fomenting hostility to the English Crown. The French Revolution exacerbated the political war being waged in print and through satirical representations and it contributed new images to its repertory : the sans-culotte, the guillotine, the povery and violence which reigned in France and, in counterpoint, British prosperity. The authors analyze many of the characteristic prints by Gillray and his contemporaries and study the impact of this propaganda compaign on the long-term development of English stereotyped images and clichés.