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
- Made by
- Anonymous French print publisher (no name on the sheet)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- France
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Ancien Regime France
- Leader
- Louis Xvi
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Labor
- Event
- Estates General 1789
- Techniques
- Plain folksGlittering generalities
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Library of Congress, 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
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.
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.
