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 acknowledges them, omitting their professions erases their usually-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 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 in the last weeks of the Terror (June 13-July 28, 1794). 

 

Monuments present their sponsors' point of view.

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