Images

The Champ de Mars Massacre on 17 July 1791. The caption reads: "Men, women, children massacred on the altar of the fatherland at the Champ de la Federation". Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Lamia and the Soldier (1905) by John William Waterhouse, Inspired by John Keat's Lamia.

Black-figure lekythos attributed to the Beldam Painter and thought to depict Lamia being tortured by five satyrs.

The Kiss of the Enchantress by Isobel Lilian Gloag (c. 1890), inspired by Keats's Lamia, depicts Lamia as half-serpent, half-woman.

Maelgwn Gwynedd (Maglocunus) depicted in a 15th-century Welsh manuscript of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. Peniarth MS 23, f 96 v. National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

St Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1033-1109), as depicted in a stained glass window in Chester Cathedral, England, 1916.

Statue of Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) by Pierre Loison, 1857. Louvre, Cour Napoleon courtyard.

An 1882 painting by John Pettie showing the Duke of Monmouth begging for his life at the feet of James II of England. In the 1685 Monmouth rebellion, the duke had attempted to take the throne from his uncle.

Portrait of Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist, oil on canvas by an unknown artist (previously attributed to Jean-Baptiste Greuze). Palace of Versailles.

Self-portrait of Sophie de Condorcet (1764-1822), also known as Sophie de Grouchy, a French salon hostess, noted feminist and philosopher. She was also the wife of philosopher and mathematician Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, and sister...