BARRICADES AND INSURRECTIONS ARE PART OF THE CITY'S LEGEND, BUT EVEN BEFORE THE MUSEUM'S RENOVATION* THEY WERE ALMOST ABSENT
*In 2016-2022
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Their memory and the museum's portrayal:
- The name "barricade" comes from barrique, "wine barrel" in old French. The tie harks back to 1588, the "Day of Barricades" when a revolt made Henri III flee:
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- French and foreign movies show them...
- Victor Hugo inserts two in Les Misérables, though they are of June 1848 and the story culminates with an insurrection that took place 15 years before:
- At République was an apparition "that seemed built by a mathematician or specter, before which it was impossible not to be thoughtful," but the museum painting shows only army tents.
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Camp de troupes sur le Boulevard du Temple pendant les journées de juin 1848 ("Soldiers' Camp at the Entry of Boulevard du Temple during the June Days of 1848") by Alexandre Josquin, no date / zoom
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| Drawing by Gustave Brion in the original leaflet |
- At Bastille "the barricade was monstrous...
It reared up like a cyclops at the extremity of the formidable site where July 14 took place... Seeing it evoked immense suffering... when distress becomes catastrophe. ...
The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, attacked by ten thousand, held for three days... not one of the eighty cowards tried to flee, all were killed. "
But the museum showed it fading into the distance:
La place de la Bastille et la barricade à l'entrée du fb. Saint-Antoine, 25 juin 1848 ("Place de la Bastille,and entry to fb. Saint-Antoine, June 25 1848") by Jean-Jacques Champin, no date / zoom
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Fighting was minimized. This painting was placed so high that one could hardly see the combat from the floor:
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Attaque d'une barricade sur le pont de l'Archevèche ("A Barricade Attacked on the Archevêché Bridge" ) by Philippe Chaperon, 1849 / zoom |
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Exception: Placed alone at eye-level above a chest of drawers, this work was impossible to miss (its location seemed so obvious that I did not take a photo at the time).
Le Combat à la porte Saint-Denis 28 juillet 1830 (The Fight at Saint-Denis Gate, July 28 1830") by Hippolyte Lecomte, 1830 / zoom
The underclass fighters wear white shirts (the "blouse"). Exceptionally, one is shown full face (please read on).
Was the painting exhibited because it concerns the 1830 Revolution, which lets capitalism break through?
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The work is not shown now.
The photo comes from the web.
Since that is often the case,
I add "not exhibited."
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