5.1.1. 1830: THE PEOPLE FOOLED

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THIS OFFICIALLY-COMMISSIONED PAINTING HAS ALL CLASSES SURROUND THE NEW KING AS HE RIDES PAST 1830'S BARRICADES 

The Duke of Orleans on the way to City Hall, crosses place du Châtelet, July 31 1830 by Prosper Lafaye, 1830 / zoom

That social cohesion will soon be as unreal as is the white horse in this work of propaganda, which the City commissioned and the Musée Carnavalet prominently exhibits.

A new struggle emerges

• Freedom's great painting, fervent and ambiguous

• The Arc de Triomphe's lame homage to the plebes 

• The July Column, as evasive

• Victor Hugo's "time of riots" 

• Algeria enters France's conflicts

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Freedom's great painting, fervent and ambiguous