Exit libertè a la Francois!—or—Buonaparte closing the farce of Egalitè, at S<sup>t</sup>. Cloud near Paris Nov<sup>r</sup>. 10<sup>th</sup>. 1799 / J<sup>s</sup>. Gillray inv' &amp; f'.
<p>SUMMARY:  British satire shows Napoleon with his grenadiers driving the members of the Council of Five Hundred from the Orangery at St. Cloud at bayonet point. A drum is labeled "Vive la Liberte," and papers under foot read "Resignation des Directoires" and "Un liste de Membres du Conseil des Cinque Cents." On November 10, 1799, in a move known as the Coup d'État of Eighteenth Brumaire, Napoleon seized control of the French government and installed himself as First Consul, thereafter governing as a dictator. James Gillray was the dominant caricaturist of his period, producing popular savage cartoons of the English court of George III and later of Napoleon and the French Revolution.
</p><p>MEDIUM:  1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 25.2 × 36 cm (sheet)
</p><p>CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [London] : Publishd by H. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street, 1799 Novr. 21st.
</p><p>NOTES:
</p><p>Title from item.
</p><p>Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9426
</p><p>Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
</p><p>Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
</p><p>Unprocessed in WOOD/Gillray.118
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Hoff, Syd. Editorial and political cartooning, p. 38; Parton, James, Caricature and other comic art, p. 153, 267–68 — ljr
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1799-11-01
Library of Congress, Prints &amp; Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-07510 (digital file from original print), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/ppmsca/07500/07510u.tif">archival TIFF version (37 MB)</a>, cropped, and converted to JPEG with the GIMP 2.4.5, image quality 88.