MENU: 4.1.2. 1830: The people fooled
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
But the social cohesion will soon be as imaginary as is the white horse in this work of propaganda, which the City Museum prominently exhibits.
In brief
- 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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