5.2. 1830: THE PEOPLE FOOLED

MENU: 5.2. 1830: The people fooled

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

BARRICADES THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEMOLISHED 

That cohesion will soon be as unreal 

as is the white horse in this work of propaganda, 

which the City commissioned

 and musée Carnavalet prominently displays.

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Start of a different struggle

• 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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5.2.1.

Social classes whose goals diverge