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I found some verbiage on a gouache by Jean-Baptiste Le Sueur; The title is "Le vœu Francais, An 3,4". The other part of the gouache shows Republicans carrying a banner "Vivre Libre, ou Mourir."

This gouache is in the Louvre and is shown on its website.

A narration on the gouache, underneath a picture of two men fighting, one with a sabre against one with a pair of scissors(?), is "rencontre d'un sabreur, et d'un brise-scélé ou membre d'un comité révolutionaire", which I interpret as a...

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