Le Pacte illustrates the nationalist dimension of the spring of the people: a procession of European nations (in which people of all sexes, ages and social classes mingle) marches past a tree of freedom, then a statue of the allegory of the Republic. Nations are identifiable by their flags (French, German, Italian, Hungarian, Czech) and their traditional costumes. The decay of monarchs is symbolized by a soil littered with royal attributes.
