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A royalist engraving lampooning the efforts of republican Jacobins to erect a statue to 'La Nation'. A royal sun, decorated with the fleur-de-lis, is melting the statue away, despite efforts to cool it using bellows. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A royalist engraving lampooning the efforts of republican Jacobins to erect a statue to 'La Nation'. A royal sun, decorated with the fleur-de-lis, is melting the statue away, despite efforts to cool it using bellows.    (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)