Tyranny Tremble Still Image

Two crossed sabers held by uniformed arms emerging from clouds, set against a red banner reading "Tremblez Tyrans" ("Tremble, Tyrants"), marked "No. 1" in the corner.

Dublin Core

Title

Tyranny Tremble

Description

A very potent image associating the revolutionary war with an attack on tyrants. Contemporaries would have understood the target, "tyrants," to be the monarchs.

Source

mfr 86.199

Date

1793

Relation

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/32/

Identifier

32

Citation

“Tyranny Tremble,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed November 9, 2026, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/32.