MENU: 4.1.2. 1830: The people fooled
THE NEW KING RIDES PAST BARRICADES
ON HIS WAY TO CITY HALL,
TO ANNOUNCE COMING TO POWER
(ON AUGUST 7, 1830)
The artist adds the white horse
in this work of propaganda
The Duke of Orleans, on the way to City Hall, crosses place du Châtelet, July 31 1830 by Prosper Lafaye, 1830
Prominently exhibited at the City Museum
...but looking closely shows
that the crowd is not paying
much attention to him
In brief
- Freedom's great painting, fervent but 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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