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How the King of Beasts Became a Republican: A Lion in the French Revolution
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 53, Number 2, June 2020
- pp. 51-63
- 10.1353/mos.2020.0014
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
This essay examines the way in which the lion who lived first at Versailles and then in Le Jardin des Plantes in Paris was depicted in a range of texts. It shows how the lion was central to debates about science, Revolution, and the function of zoos.
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