THE JULY COLUMN, AS EVASIVE

THE OTHER GREAT MONUMENT OF THE TIME: A COLUMN

THAT HONORS THE FALLEN OF 1830

(INAUGURATED IN 1840)

Giving their names acknowledges them, while omitting their professions erases their humble origins.

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

Names

 Perhaps there was no room for professions? 

But royalists managed to do so,

as a way to show the arbitrariness

of the Revolution's bloodbath:

 

Plaques like this one surround the altar of the Picpus church, which is a few steps from the guillotine's last site.* Its cemetery is reserved to descendants of guillotined nobles.

*At place de la Nation in the east, which then was outside town and called the "place of the Overturned Throne" because the guillotine was transferred there in the last weeks of the Terror (June 13-July 28, 1794). For some of its drama, please click here and here (please scroll down).

 

Monuments present their sponsors' point of view.

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