Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: the ceremony of immersion. Pencil drawing by R. Cleaver.

A fat friar sitting on an open fireplace and frying a drumstick. Etching by Charles West Cope.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: the shrine and sacred well. Wood engraving by H. Lanos.

A friar giving food to lame people and to a mother and her two children. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.

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