FEBRUARY 1848: FIGHTING THAT IS (ALMOST) DELETED

 

INSTEAD: ANNOUNCEMENTS, MEDALS, BOURGEOIS, A SASH, FURNITURE...

And a statement of abdication that given so little fighting, makes no sense. 

The National Guards defended property and so were middle-class. The fallen fighter's white shirt shows him plebeian, but he is secondary and faceless.

Despite his white shirt the wounded man resembles bourgeois romantic heroes.

A full corner on Lamartine,: his speech, sash, portrait and chest of drawers...

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Then the desk of the deposed king with his abdication. Two small paintings behind it show the popular uprising but a platform prevents approaching them and they are too distant to see well:

 Instead of at least giving their titles, the panel in front of the installation exhibits a piece of cloth from the throne room, with a sign that says... 

"Obtained by A. Bernard, 

student at the École polytechnique."

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