Images of the French Revolution, battling the
ancien rà ©gime: The common people arise against the degenerate aristocracy and monarchy, whose end has come. The passion of the French revolutionaries, it should be noted, helped spark the bloody but successful slave rebellion in Haiti.
Liberty
Leading the
People, by
Eugene
Delacroix
Prise_de_la_Bastille (Storming of the Bastille), by Jean-Pierre Houà «l
La Bastille dans les prà ©miers jours de sa demolition [The Bastille Early in Its Demolition], by Hubert Robert
These are all shared images from http://www.Photobucket.com. I don't know the names of the following four paintings offhand, but maybe some of you, the viewers, do. If so, let me know:
I am a student of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and a tempered advocate for the ultimate manifestation of peace, justice and the unity of humankind through self-realization and mutual respect, although I am not (
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