The genius of France extirpating despotism tyranny and oppression from the face of the earth Or the royal warriors defeated, Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764 1811, engraving 1792, 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.