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Une réception sous le règne de Louis-Philippe (A Recption under the Reign of Louis Philippe) by Eugène Louis Lami (1800-1890), 1832
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The Unfortunate Cloquemin under Lock and Key (Le malheureux cloquemin sous les verroux], ca. 1830 by an unknown artist
Leaving for the penal colony from the Bicêtre prison in Paris, ca. 1830 [watercolor] |
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Sisters of Charity (Les Soeurs de charité), François Bonvin (1817-1887), 1851.
At the door of the convent or charity bureau some nuns distribute aid. |
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Newspaper Readers (Les lecteurs de journaux), dagerreotype by W. Thompson, 1849 |
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Caricature of Les Miserables in the newspaper, Le Journal Amusant, by Cham, 21 March 1863
1& 2 Hugo at the barricades of the rue de la Chanvrerie; 3 the Minister of War, Marshall Soult riding into battle; 4 he offers Gavroche the Governorship of Algeria, which he refuses in keeping with his creator's critique of French expansionism. |
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