ABSTRACT
Whether it was hurling, dispersing, dispensing, or flinging-throwing things became a consummate form of revolutionary praxis, its effectiveness summarily captured in the anonymous print Moyen expéditif du peuple français pour démeubler un aristocrate (Figure 2.1). Published in Camille Desmoulins’ incendiary newspaper, Révolutions de France et de Brabant, the image shows the Hôtel de Castries in the process of being sacked on November 13, 1790 by a nameless crowd that has already managed to defenestrate several
Figure 2.1 Anonymous, Moyen expéditif du peuple français pour démeubler un aristocrate, from Révolutions de France et de Brabant 52, 1790. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
