An early cartoon condemning the atheism and hostility to the aristocracy manifest in the French Revolution. “If all this is so, as we unfortunately could not call into doubt, plague, war, and famine are much less formidable than the plague known today in all of Europe under the name of French disease. Those attack only the current generation, this one [i.e., Revolution] tends to rot its way down to our last heirs. The author of the cartoon is therefore right to say in this sense that it is clear that the new regime is tipping the balance.”
(Jacque-Marie Boyer-Brun, Histoire des caricatures de la révolte des Français, Paris, 1792)