V.2.6. THE JULY COLUMN, AS EVASIVE

THE OTHER GREAT MONUMENT OF THE TIME: A COLUMN

THAT HONORS 1830'S FALLEN  

(INAUGURATED IN 1840)

Giving their names commemorates them, but omitting their professions erases their mainly humble origins:

The July Column, on ultra-symbolic place de la Bastille

Names

Perhaps there was no room for professions? But royalists managed to include them, as a way to show the arbitrariness of the Revolution's bloodbath:

Such plaques surround the altar of the Picpus church, near the guillotine's last site.* Its cemetery is reserved to descendants of guillotined nobles.

*At place de la Nation, then called the "place of the Overturned Throne" because the guillotine was transferred there at the end of the Terror (June 13-July 28, 1794). 

 

Monuments present 

their sponsors' point of view.

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 5.2.7.

Victor Hugo's "Time of riots"