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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;old49er, post: 2926062, member: 78229&quot;]Thanks for the feedback. Here&#039;s a description i found online.</p><p>The beautifully detailed engraving captures a scene, which was actually acted out during the Festival. It features Federal Guards offering a revolutionary salute to a female figure representing France. She sits beside an obelisk and holds a tablet bearing the words “CONSTITUTION DES FRANÇAIS”. Before her is a pedestal bearing the profile of Louis XVI and behind her is a shield bearing the royal coat-of-arms of three fleurs-de-lis. The engraver&#039;s signature “DUPRE.F.” (for Dupré fecit – “Dupré made this”) appears below the female figure, and beneath that are two crushed parchments symbolising the removal of privileges from the church and the nobility (one parchment bears the French word “DIME” meaning “tithe”, while the other bears the letters “PRIV” – the beginning of the French word privilèges). Above the image are the words “PACTE FEDERATIF”. The cogent legend reads “VIVRE LIBRES - OU MOURIR” - to live free or to die (this exhortation also appears, along with a Phrygian cap mounted on a spear, on the flags flying above the soldiers’ heads). The date of the oath in exergue &quot;14 JUILLET 1790&quot;</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/file:///C:/Users/denny/Pictures/Monnerons%20Issued!_files/wp77dc7b9b.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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