- TORCH-LIT CORPSES.
- DESTRUCTION (NOT PILLAGE) OF ROYAL TREASURE.
- THE TERROR THAT POPULAR DISCIPLINE INSTILLED.
Instead it presents...
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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.
Lamartine making his speech, his sash, portrait and chest of drawers...
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And the desk of the deposed king with the proclamation of his abdication.
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The only signs of popular rising are a wounded man whom one can barely make out, and two small paintings of fighting behind the king's desk:
- A platform prevents approaching them and they are too distant to see well.
- In front of the installation is a transparent panel, on which are attached a piece of cloth from the throne room and a sign:
It says,
"Textile fragment from the throne room
of Louis-Philippe obtained by A. Bernard,
student at the École polytechnique."
It does not give the paintings' titles
and one can barely make them out.
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