Perfect image to remind everybody French art history is loaded with scenes of Revolutions failed and flawed.
Daumier, Honoré, The Uprising (L'Emeute), 1848 or later, Oil on canvas 34 1/2 x 44 1/2 in.; 87.63 x 113.03 cm.. Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Acquired 1925. Paintings, 0384, French.
The Storming of the Bastille", Visible in the center is the arrest of Bernard René Jourdan, m de Launay (1740-1789) Jean-Pierre Louis Laurent Houël
Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People - 102.4 in × 128.0 in
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