5.2. 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 

Le duc d'Orléans en route vers l'Hôtel de Ville croise la place du Châtelet, 31 juillet 1830 ("The Duke of Orleans on the way to City Hall crosses place du Châtelet, July 31 1830) by Prosper Lafaye, 1830 / zoom

That 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 different struggle begins

• Social classes whose goals diverge

• Faceless poor and bourgeois heroes

• More on bourgeois heroes

• 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"

• An intelligent ogre checks in

• Algeria enters France's conflicts

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