À gorge déployée ? Rire et guillotine en Grande-Bretagne pendant la Révolution française

Following the execution of Louis xvi, England was in the throes of the fear of revolution, and it became bad form or downright dangerous to laugh at the guillotine. The loyalists imposed a strict social ban on such behaviour, considering the sardonic grin of the French Jacobins as a sign of their in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rémy Duthille
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 2013-12-01
Series:XVII-XVIII
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/1718/512