The genius of France extirpating despotism tyranny & oppression from the face of the earth Or the royal warriors defeated. Cartoon shows a woman wearing a liberty cap, representing the genius of France, holding a cat-o'-nine-tails in one hand and the reins of a donkey in the other; on this donkey and another bucking in the background are several monarchs identified as Prussia, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Brunswick, Turkey, Spain, and, falling to the ground, China; Louis XVI lies on the ground beneath the donkey held by the woman; in the left foreground, sitting on the ground tearing her hair is Marie I of Portugal. Date 1792 Dec. 21. The genius of France extirpating despotism tyranny & oppression from the face of the earth Or the royal warriors defeated. Cartoon shows a woman wearing a liberty cap, representing the genius of France, holding a cat-o'-nine-tails in one hand and the reins of a donkey in the other; on this donkey and another bucking in the background are several monarchs identified as Prussia, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Brunswick, Turkey, Spain, and, falling to the ground, China; Louis XVI lies on the ground beneath the donkey held by the woman; in the left foreground, sitting on the ground tearing her hair is Marie I of Portugal. Date 1792 Dec. 21.