Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
Omne animal post Coitum triste praeter Gallum. Leur imprudence présomption orgueil et tyrannie sont humiliés
[ca. 1779]
Dorothy George, BM 5581, mentions two French satires. One is entitled "O qu'el d'estain," and shows a tiger (England) being attacked by a cock (France), a lion (Spain), and a snake (America). The title is a pun on the French Admiral D'Estaing, who had just taken Granada. The position of the animals is suggestive, and George mentions a second state entitled "Le destin molestant les Anglois." This may be an English version of the same, especially reflecting D'Estaing's subsequent failure to take Savannah and his replacement by DeGrasse.
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