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  • Christ appears to the Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque. Engraving by F. Spagnoli.
  • Boston, Massachusetts: John Malcolm, a customs official, is lowered by ropes from his house on to a cart and tarred and feathered by a crowd protesting against taxation. Engraving by F. Godefroy, 1784.
  • A French soldier returning from the American War of Independence is rewarded with the Order of Saint Louis and the hand of a rich man's daughter as his bride. Line engraving by J.J. Avril, 1784, after P.A. Wille.