English: Title: Exit libertè a la Francois! or Buonaparte closing the farce of Egalité, at St. Cloud near Paris Novr. 10th 1799

Abstract: 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. Physical description: 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 25.2 x 36 cm (sheet)

Notes: Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).; Title from item.; PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 Exhibited: "Timely and Timeless" at the Graphic Arts Galleries, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011-2012.; Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).; Js. Gillray inv' & f'.