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| Keywords: Louis le dernier3 crop.jpg Louis XVI of France wearing a phrygian cap drinking a toast to the health of the sans-culottes Etching and mezzotint with watercolor Scanned from a photographic slide Captions in English Long live the nation from bottle to mouth Below Louis XVI having put on the Phrygian cap cried 'long live the nation' He drank to the health of the sans-culottes and affected a show of great calm He spoke high-sounding words about how he never feared the law that he had never feared to be in the midst of the people; finally he pretended to play a personal part in the insurrection of June 20 Well The same Louis XVI has bravely waited until his fellow citizens return to their hearths to wage a secret war and extract his revenge Library of Congresshttp //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cph 3b51508 1792 Author ; cropped by Beyond My Ken <span class signature-talk >talk</span> 07 15 24 February 2011 UTC Restored version of Image Louis le dernier jpg Rotated and cropped dirt and stains removed scanning error corrected damaged areas reconstructed Selective sharpening and contrast enhancement Histogram adjusted selective partial desaturation and color balanced; 150px PD-old-100 Caricatures of Louis XVI of France 1792 Phrygian caps 20th of June 1792 | ||||
