Abstract
Jean-Baptiste Reveillon had a fine house. Its charming grounds covered nearly five acres, and it contained a library of more than fifty thousand volumes, furniture worth fifty thousand livres, and a magnificent wine cellar. Parisians gossiped about it, strolled to the edge of the city to see it, and in April 1789 ravaged it.' With his house and the wallpaper works that occupied the ground floor besieged, Reveillon took refuge in the Bastille. He was pained and puzzled by the crowd's fury. After all, he was a good employer. He paid high wages and kept hundreds of his workers on the books during the fierce winter of 1788-89, when no wallpaper could be made.2 From the belly of the Bastille, he cried out for justice and compensation. In his Expose justificatif, the pamphlet he penned in his sanc-
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