[235] ] ‘Suppose Champagne flowing,’ says Carlyle, when describing this banquet in his French Revolution.
[236] ] Carlyle’s French Revolution.
[237] ] The date ‘An 1er de la liberté’ may possibly refer to the ‘Year One’ of the Republican calendar (1792), in which Mirabeau fell in a duel at Fribourg. But an earlier edition of the same caricature seems to have been published, according to De Goncourt in the Journal de la Mode et du Goût, in May 1790.
‘Malgré les calembours, les brocards, les dictons,
Je veux à mes repas vuider mes deux flacons,’
are the lines assigned to him in Le Vicomte de Barjoleau, ou le Souper des Noirs, a two-act comedy of the epoch.
