Images of the upheaval of the common people against the ancien régime, as the French Revolution began to rage. The ideals of this revolution helped inspire Haitian slaves, as well as other sectors of Haitian society (Saint-Domingue was the island's French colonial name) to struggle for the very freedoms that French revolutionaries began struggling for in 1789, liberty, fraternity, equality.

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Images of the French Revolution, battling the ancien régime: 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.

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Liberty Leading the People, by Eugene Delacroix


Prise_de_la_Bastille (Storming of the Bastille), by Jean-Pierre Houël

La Bastille dans les prémiers 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:

Authors Bio:
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 a pacifist, nor do I believe in peace at any price, which is no peace at all but only delays inevitable conflict. There are times when the world must act. Planetary consciousness is evolving, but there are many retrograde forces that would drag us back down.

I have also written one book, a combination of poetry, photography and essays entitled "Post Katrina Blues", my reflections on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans two years after Katrina struck. Go to the store at http://sanfranciscobaypress.com/ to purchase. And I also have a blog called Plutonian Mac.