Satire on the French reactions to the disasters of the year 1759 (i.e., the British annus mirabilis). Details of the composition are described in a key below in both French and English: 1. Flat-bottomed boats (intended for invasion) to be sold; 2. soldiers to let (they march away from Calais gate); 3. a minister hanging from a cross;  4. a general being broken on the wheel (two monks watching the torture say, "It is thy just reward"); 5. the spirit of France rising from the earth holding "Carte Blanch for the English"; 6. Joan of Arc also rising from the earth ("Thy Good fortune came by a Girl"); 7. Madame de Pompadour ("thy Misfortunes comes by a Wh[or]e"; Mercury flies above announcing the taking of Quebec by the English on 18th September; a man bowing low in the foreground asks mercy for the prisoners in England and Hanover.  1759
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1759<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1759-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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