Face à la Révolution et l’Empire: caricatures anglaises (1789-1815) (in French)

 
From the publishers:
In Britain, the French Revolution and the First Empire gave rise to an impressive production of images and iconography, and in particular satirical engravings. From the middle of the 18th century, caricature became a popular part of English daily life, maintained throughout the period thanks to several important artists, including James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and Isaac Cruikshank, as well as many other, anonymous contributers. The English, unsurprisingly, would go on to turn these weapons of cruelty and outrage against the sans-culottes and Napoleon Bonaparte. This compendium of caricatures, taken from the Musée Carnavalet's rich collection, is an aggressive and satirical vision of France from the other side of the Channel. But more than that, aside from the grotesque depiction of a French state in ferment, these English caricaturists were concerned with the future of their own nation.
 
Pascal Dupuy is associate history professor at the Université de Rouen. He has published, in collaboration with Michel Biard, La Révolution française. Dynamique et ruptures, 1787-1804 (Paris, Armand Colin, 2008).