MENU: 5.1. History: which facts?
ALL VIEWS ARE SUBJECTIVE BECAUSE ONE IS OBLIGED TO CHOOSE SOME FACTS AND LEAVE OUT OTHERS
Choices are based on a point of view, such as identity, kinds of sociéty or drama
Identity, Washington crossing the Delaware, Bonaparte at the bridge of Arcole; kinds of society, Lenin mobilizing the Proletariat, Washington at Mount Vernon); drama, L'Éxecution de Robespierre
These pages, on the other hand,
stress underlying economic and social forces.
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Liberty Guides the People by Eugène Delacroix, 1831 / zoom |
This iconic work concerns the upheaval of 1830, by which the essential transformation of the French Revolution, eliminating the power of the nobility, became definitive. But that's not said.
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