The cartoon caricatures appeared in many journals and newspapers in which year?

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1876

1860

1900

1780

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By the 1780s, there was a flood of literature mocking the royalty and criticising their morality. It also called into question the existing social order. Cartoons and caricatures frequently depicted the monarchy as being preoccupied with sensual pleasures while the common people suffered greatly. This literature spread underground, fueling hostility toward the monarchy. There is no doubt that print aids in the spread of ideas. However, we must keep in mind that people did not read only one type of literature. They were exposed to monarchical and republican ideas if they read Voltaire and Rousseau's ideas in Propaganda from the Church.

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