EditorialCharles-Francois du Perier Dumouriez, French general during the French Revolutionary Wars, 1739-1823. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Portraits des Personnages qui ont le plus Figure dans la Rev...
EditorialGeorges Danton, Deputy of Paris at the National Convention, executed 1794. Vignette shows him delivering his La Patrie en Danger speech at the National Assembly. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 ...
EditorialJoseph Emmanuel Sieyes, French politician and theorist, 1748-1836. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Portraits des Personnages qui ont le plus Figure dans la Revolution Francaise, Auber, Pairs, 18...
EditorialLouis Pierre Manuel, writer, Prucurer to the Commune of Paris, guillotined 1793. Vignette shows Manuel attacked by a group of Jacobins. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Portraits des Personnages ...
EditorialHonore Gabriel Riquetti, comte de Mirabeau, 1749-1791. Vignette shows his energetic response to the Master of Ceremonies, 23 June 1789. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Portraits des Personnages ...
EditorialFrancois Severin Marceau, French Revolutionary General. Vignette shows him mortally wounded at the Battle of Altenkirchen, Germany, 1796. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Portraits des Personnage...
EditorialAntoine Laurent Lavoisier, French noble and chemist, 1743-1794. Vignette shows Lavoisier arrested in his lab by the Revolutionary Committee. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Portraits des Personn...
EditorialMaximilien Robespierre, Deputy of Artois, executed 1794. Vignette shows the wounded Robespierre lying on a table in a room of the Committee of Public Safety, 9th Thermidor 1794. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection...
EditorialBarthelemy Catherine Joubert, General en Chef de l'Armee d'Italie. Vignette shows his death at the Battle of Novi against the Russian and Austrian armies, 1799. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 P...
EditorialMadame Roland or Marie-Jeanne Phelippon (1754-1793), Girondist, together with her husband Jean-Marie Roland de la Platiere. Vignette shows her pleading her case before the Revolutionary Tribunal. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux f...
EditorialGilbert Mottier Lafayette, deputy of Augergne to the Etats Generaux, 1789. Vignette shows the Federation Generale on the Champ de Mars, 14 July 1790. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Portraits de...
EditorialJean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, conseiller d'Etat, later King Charles XIV John of Sweden and Norway (1763-1844). Vignette shows him taking the fortress of Gradisca during the Battle of Valvasone, 1797. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Ber...
EditorialJean Antoine Joseph Debry, Ministre Plenipotentiaire de la Republique Francaise, orator. Vignette shows him escaping the massacre of his fellow ministers by Austrian Hussars at Rastadt, 1799. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from ...
EditorialJean Marie Roland de la Platiere, Minister of the Interior, 1792. Committed suicide after the execution of his wife. Vignette shows the discovery of his corpse in a wheatfield on the road to Rouen. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux...
EditorialLouis Lazare Hoche, Revolutionary General des Armees de la Republique Francaise, died at Wetzlar in 1797. Vignette shows Hoche signing the pacification of the Vendee in 1796 in a military tent. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux fro...
EditorialCamille Desmoulins, Depute de Paris a la Convention Nationale, d. 1794. Vignette shows him delivering a speech on a table in the Palais Royal (Palais Egalite). Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Po...
EditorialJean Paul Marat, Deputy of Paris in the National Convention, assassinated 1793. Vignette shows him being carried in triumph after his acquittal by the Revolutionary Tribunal. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Co...
EditorialJean-Baptiste Carrier, Deputy of the Department of Cantal at the National Convention, guillotined 1794. Vignette shows the Drownings at Nantes, Noyades de Nantes, 1793. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete...
EditorialJean Charles Pichegru, Revolutionary General en Chef de l'Armee du Nord, later joined the Royalists, died in prison, 1761-1804. Vignette shows the French army entering Holland. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection ...
EditorialLouis Charles Antoine Desaix, General de Division. Vignette shows his death at the Battle of Marengo, 1800. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Portraits des Personnages qui ont le plus Figure dans ...
EditorialCount Nicolas Luckner, French Revolutionary general, Generalissime des Armees Francaises, executed in 1794. Vignette shows his arrest on a battlefield. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Portraits ...
EditorialGuillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman, Ministre d'Etat, 1721-1794. Vignette shows him working on his defense of Louis XVI in the Tour de Temple. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Compl...
EditorialKing Louis XVI, last king of the French. Vignette shows the storming of the Tuileries Palace, August 10, 1792. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Portraits des Personnages qui ont le plus Figure da...
EditorialArmand Gensonne (1758-1793), French politician and Deputy of the Convention. Vignette shows him taken to la Suplice in a tumbril, 31 Sept. 1793. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Portraits des Per...
EditorialCharles Pierre Francois Augereau, 1st Duc de Castiglione, General de Division de l'Armee d'Italie, 1757-1816. Vignette shows him holding the standard at the Battle of Arcole, 1796. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collect...
EditorialAdam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French Revolutionary general, executed for treason 1793. Vignette shows the French Revolutionary army taking the city of Mainz in 1792. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete...