What is this? Name? Period?Date?Artist?

Colours?

The event1830 Revolution

25th July 1830, ultraroyalists under Charles X attempted to return to the ancient regime and to suppress liberal press. That provoked the opposition of the middle classes, who wanted more voices in the government . On 27th, 28th and 29th July 1830, known as the "Three Glorious Days", the rioters erected barricades in the streets and confronted the army in bloody combat, resulting in more than one thousand deads. Charles X and the royal family fled from Paris. The Liberal deputies brought the popular revolt under control, and instated a constitutional monarchy. But the people wanted a Republic…

© [Louvre.edu] - photo Erich Lessing

Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix, 1830Paris, Musée du Louvre © [Louvre.edu] - photo Erich Lessing

Historical moment : The 3 Glorious Days

The artistic side

Themes

Lines

THE DEAD

The barricade:

Symbol of the people’s

resistance. Liberty and her partisans are stepping on it.

THE LIVINGThe triangle : base

on the dead, summit on the

revolutionary flag

Hope is in the revolution

Liberty moves forward thanks to

the dead who sacrified their lives for her.

The Place

Notre Dame of Paris

Buildings, flats in Paris

The characters

Who are they?

What are they doing?

Why are they here?

Symbols of the republicSymbolic characters

Symbols of the French spiritFamous Monument?

Social casts

The Dead

Blood, face expression a soldier

The revolutionaries

The woman is leading the people, she is half

naked, breast free, She is wearing the

phrygian cap of liberty(// 1789),

holding the tricolour flagleading the people toward

Liberty. This is an allegory of

conquering Liberty

The young boy of Paris, probably an inspiration

for Gavroche a few years

later.

Maybe a self portrait of Delacroix (the

painter feels politically implicated in the

revolution). He is from the bourgeoisie class (clothes,

attitude…). Behind him : a polytechnician

(student class)

A liberal revolutionary

(cockade)

A young man wearing the police cap

Symbols of the republicTraditional Phrygian cap of

Liberty Tricolour Flag

Symbolic characters Marianne, the boy (inspiration for Victor Hugo’s

Gavroche), self-portrait of Delacroix

Symbols of the French spirit

Notre Dame of ParisSocial casts

bourgeoisie and the lower class (working class)

BARRICADE : revolutionary spirit ( 1789, 1830, 1848, 1871, 1936, 1968..) parallel with nowadays?

Famous Monument

The symbols of the RevolutionThe

revolutionary flag

forbidden by Charles X

The Phrygian

cap of Liberty

Reminders of the

colours of the flag

conclusion

This painting represents Delacroix’s engagement in the revolution

It shows that the revolution of 1830 gathered and united the people of Paris

against the King who was a threat for their Liberty.

The king fled And other revolutions came

1830 agaist Charles X

1848 against Louis Philippe

1871

The aim : defend the values of the French Revolution of 1789 and obtain a better and

more satisfying political regime

The painte

r

• « If I haven’t vanquished for the motherland, at least will I paint

for her… »

• « Si je n’ai pas vaincu pour la Patrie, au moins peindrai-je pour elle… »

Eugène Delacoix

Where is he represented ?

100 Francs bank notes

Bust of Marianne in townhalls

Marianne, symbol of France

Logo of the current French government (the Fifth Republic). The logo features Marianne, symbol of the French Revolution. It emphasizes the

revolutionary values: liberty, equality, fraternity.

May 1968 Barricade

September 2010barricades replaced by…

… BannersAnother century

but the same French spirit

People never stopped stuggling for their rights

Our own interpretation of the painting

Liberty Leading the Comenius Class

In front of Notre Dame of PoitiersOn 19 th October 2010

A day of importanat strikes in France…