Allegorical engraving on the frontispiece of the Dictionnaire des Girouettes; a satirical work published in 1815 mocking the various governments in power in France from the French Revolution of 1790 to 1815. Monarchy; republic; empire; consulate; the king; Napoleon; demagogy... the speeches; decrees; declarations and books of the great minds and statesmen of these 25 years are spinning on the wings of a mill.