Prairial Uprising of Year III

Illustration

Harrison W. Mark
by Félix Auvray
published on 02 December 2022
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Uprising of 1 Prairial Year III (20 May 1795) against the policies of the Thermidorian Reaction during the later stages of the French Revolution (1789-1799). Here, the insurrectionists wave the severed head of Jean-Bertrand Féraud in the face of the president of the National Convention. Oil on canvas by Félix Auvray, 1831.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes.

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