[Illustration: ‘Cabriolet’ Fan. Schreiber Coll^n. British Museum.] The ‘Day of Poignards’ (February 28, 1791) approaches, and friends of Royalty (les chevaliers de poignard) rally round the son of sixty kings. We all know the issue: chevaliers retreated with greater expedition than they came—flung ignominiously downstairs into the darkness of the Tuileries garden, accelerated by ignominious shovings from the sentries—‘spurnings _a posteriori_, not to be named.’[140] Our veracious chronicler the fan provides us with a representation of the scene. The inscription, ‘Arestation e Désarmement de gens au suspects Ch^{au} des thuileries le 28 F^{er} 1791 à 10^h du soir,’ with six verses of a revolutionary song, entitled, ‘La Soirée des Poignards,’ the refrain: ‘Quoi l’habit bleu vous fait peur Valeureux Aristocrates, Quoi l’habit bleu vous fait peur Brave ci-devant Seigneur.’ The event of the 2nd of April could not pass without the fan’s comment; we therefore have a medallion profile portrait of Mirabeau, inscribed, ‘Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, C^{te} de Mirabeau. Mort le 2 Avril 1791.’ A second Mirabeau fan, in the possession of M. Philippe de Saint-Albin, has in the centre a portrait bust, above which is inscribed, ‘Honoré Gabriel Riquetti Mirabeau,’ and ‘Je combattrai les factieux de tous les partis’; on either side of the portrait two medallions, the subjects including Mirabeau as tribune, and the great orator on his deathbed. Assignat-fans, 1791, refer to the difficulties with respect to paper-money, the woes of the holders of _rentes_, when paper-money was not worth one-tenth of its face value, and draw a contrast between the Dives of the past and the financier of the present. On the obverse, a medley of assignats of 1791-2; on the reverse, the two Jeans, the one in ragged clothing and poor surroundings, weeping over his assignats, crying, ‘Ils sont tombés’ and ‘Vous êtes Etonnés, je m’en apperçois Bien: Qu’avec du papier je ne possède Rien’; the other, ‘Jean qui Rit,’ the speculator, who exchanges one louis d’or for 10,000 livres in assignats, is seated at a table with a large coffer and numerous bags filled with gold. He points to his brother ‘Jean qui Pleure’ and says, ‘Il se désole,’ and ‘A de certaines gens, je ne me suis point fié. Ce Résultat pour moi, vaut mieux que du papier.’ On several assignat-fans the money card, the seven of diamonds, is introduced, its significance being sufficiently obvious.