V.5.4. 1830: SHOWING CAPITALISM'S WIN

FIGHTING APPEARS AS SOON AS ONE WALKS IN

The exception to erasing insurrection, but most combattants are middle class.

A crowd of plebeians does appear in the background...

...but fashionable ladies implore a soldier in the foreground:

In the outsize painting with which the exhibit begins, the important figures are Swiss guards or members of the middle class. The two workers (in white shirts) are secondary.

And we not see their faces: more here.

Prise du Louvre, le 29 juillet 1830, massacre des gardes suisses by Louis Bezard, 1832 / zoom

Combattants are modish young men, and girls whose coiffures require a maid.* 

*For the real fighters, please click and scroll down.

 

Throwing things out of windows implies a popular rising, but the the rebels are not shown and the neighborhood could be wealthy. 

This painting shows the rebels and crossroad in front of rue Saint-Antoine, an underclass place that was famously tumultuous:* The work does not appear.  

*Please click and scroll down.

        Combat on rue Saint-Antoine, anonymous, 1830 / zoom

Not exhibited 

There too the rebels are middle class. 

Two hundred students and a few republican intellectuals were the only fighters from privileged backgrounds.  

The revolts that after six months

 became endemic are absent.

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5.5.5.

1848: Fighting that is (almost) deleted