- TORCH-LIT CORPSES.
- DESTRUCTION (NOT PILLAGE) OF ROYAL TREASURE.
- THE TERROR THAT POPULAR DISCIPLINE INSTILLED.
Instead it chooses medals, official announcements, two small paintings of middle-class combattants...
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The National Guards defended property and so were middle-class. The fallen fighter is plebeian, but secondary and faceless as usual.
The handsome young man resembles romantic heroes.
...a painting of Lamartine making his speech, the sash he wore, his portrait, his chest of drawers...
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The only signs of underclass insurrection are the two paintings to fill blank space behind the a desk.
- A platform forbids approaching them and they are too distant to be made out:
- In front of the installation is a transparent panel, on which a piece of cloth from the throne room is attached:
There are no painting titles.
"Textile fragment from the throne room
of Louis-Philippe obtained by A. Bernard,
student at the École polytechnique."
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