BARRICADES: MORTAL BARRIERS BECOME A GAME FOR KIDS

Combat à la rue Sainte-Catherine ("Combat on rue Sainte-Catherine"), anonymous, 1830 / zoom

Musée Carnavalet, not exhibited

Totentanz ("Dance of Death") by Alfred Rethel, 1849 / zoom

La barricade, rue de la Mortellerie ("The Barricade, rue la Mortellerie"), by Ernest Meissonier, 1848 (cut) / zoom

Combat at the barricades in Paris, 1848, British press / zoom

 

Guerre civile ("Civil War") by Edouard Manet, 1871 / zoom

There is no greater disrespect 

for the tragic struggles of the past

than turning those mortal barriers

 into blocks with which to play.

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