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title: Trois Tetes sous l'meme bonnet (three heads under the same cap)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/trois-tetes-sous-le-meme-bonnet-1789/
description: A coloured print shows a rustic in a red coat, seated among a plough, a rake and a scythe, raising a red cap on a stick over a triangle that frames a…
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# Trois Tetes sous l'meme bonnet (three heads under the same cap)

A coloured print shows a rustic in a red coat, seated among a plough, a rake and a scythe, raising a red cap on a stick over a triangle that frames a nobleman, a cleric and a young commoner. A stone beside him carries his speech in country dialect ('j'di', 'not' bon Roi'), a homespun voice that recommends the three orders' union for 'our good King and my country'.

- **Date:** 1789
- **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914)
- **Made by:** Anonymous French print publisher (no name on the sheet)
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [France](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=france)
- **Medium:** [Print](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=print)
- **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed)
- **Regime:** [Ancien Regime France](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=ancien-regime-france)
- **Leader:** [Louis Xvi](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=louis-xvi)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Labor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=labor)
- **Event:** [Estates General 1789](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=estates-general-1789)
- **Techniques:** [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)
- **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- **Source:** [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005676996/), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (published France 1789, before 1931); LOC: No known restrictions on publication Trois Tetes sous l'meme bonnet, France, 1789; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-07713

## Text on the object

Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Moi de tous les
états l'pere nouricier
j'di qu'il faudroit
que tout fut ainsi
pour que tous
Sarangi.
Pour not' bon Roi
et ma patrie

Trois Tetes sous l'meme bonnet.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Me, the father who feeds all the estates, I say that everything should be like this so that everyone gets along. For our good King and my country.

Three heads under the same cap.
```

Read from the 2794 px LOC master. The stone text is in a rustic spelling ('j'di', 'not' bon Roi', 'Sarangi' for 's'arrangent'); 'nouricier' is as printed.

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