The National Assembly petrified, James Gillray

Designed in two compartments [with The National Assembly Revivified], one above the other, the figures in both being three quarter length. Here, a ragged French barber, in profile to the right, gesticulating and capering, speaks to six terror-stricken companions. The foremost listener is a tailor, his shears stuck through the string of his apron, a measuring-tape round his shoulders, but wearing a cocked hat and sword. On the extreme left is a diminutive postboy. All are much caricatured with expressions denoting dismay. The barber wears a bag-wig, with a comb stuck in his hair. The others wear tricolour cockades in their hats (BM). / This is a clever and a rather celebrated caricature, on the dismay with which the violent democrats in Paris were struck when they were informed of the King's flight, and on their joy at the arrival of the intelligence of his arrest at Varennes (Wright/Evans).
Courtesy of Boston Public Library