News Urban guerilla in Paris, France

[Eccentrus]

This reminds me of a napoleonic war picture painted in oils. Dispite what it represents, it is a captivating image.

and yes, but when the Napoleonic pictures represents a revival, this one's much closer to vanity.

 

[N_Molson]

This reminds me of a napoleonic war picture painted in oils. Dispite what it represents, it is a captivating image.

In fact the picture reminds "La Liberté guidant le Peuple" by Eugène Delacroix. It was not during Napoleonic wars, but during summer 1848 riots, when people thrown out the stubborn Louis-Philippe king that was trying to restore absolute monarchy after Napoleon the Ist (well, before him there was the old and out-of-his-time Louis XVIII).

Then was the very short-lived IInd Republic, and then Napoleon the IIIrd, which was a sort of adventurer and made a coup. He really made the country enter into the industrial age (especially buidling railroads) but also was quite tight about press and opinion control. At the end he declared war to Prussia hoping to improve his image, but it was improvised, the troops were not ready, there was no plan and he was crushed and captured in Sedan by Bismark in 1870. Later was the IIIrd Republic, that lasted until WWII.

La Liberté guidant le Peuple, Eugène Delacroix

Pic of the recent riots

I can't believe the newspaper published that picture without making an obvious (and ambiguous) parallel See how similar is the layout of the characters. The hand-fire replaces the French flag. And the smoke : gunpowder in the first case, tear gas / phosphore handfire combustion in the second.

Oh and 12 more persons have been arrested and immediatly judged today.