The Revolutionary General Hoche, playing the guillotine as a stringed instrument, ascends into heaven where the atrocities of the French Revolution greet his arrival. Etching by J. Gillray.

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The Revolutionary General Hoche, playing the guillotine as a stringed instrument, ascends into heaven where the atrocities of the French Revolution greet his arrival. Etching by J. Gillray.