INSTEAD: ANNOUNCEMENTS, MEDALS, TWO MIDDLE- CLASS FIGHTERS, A SASH, FURNITURE...
And a statement of abdication that given so little struggle 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.
The wounded man wears a white worker's shirt but resembles bourgeois romantic heroes.
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Then comes the desk of the deposed king and an enlarged copy of his abdication. Two small paintings on the other panel show the uprising, but a platform prevents approaching them and they are too distant to see well:
Instead of 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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