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Paris: Capital of the 19th century
• “Academic art” and Modernism’s (self justifying) narrative
• France as center of European art and artisanship.– State sponsorship– Artisanal economy– consumption
The Contentious French
• 17891789
• 18301830 “the July Revolution” and the “July Monarchy”
• 18481848 Second Republic
• 1852-1870 Second Empire
• 18701870 The Paris Commune
• 1870 The Third Republic
The Bourbon monarchy
• Absolutism
• The academies
• Taste and power
The Bourbon Monarchy
Louis 14 (1643-1715) Hyacinthe Rigaud,
Portrait of
Louis 14,
1701
Versailles (1680s)
Versailles: Galérie des glaces and French artisanship
Louis 16 (1774-1792)
• Would absolutism survive?
• Causes of the revolution– Debt– Privilege– Reform
• From fiscal to constitutional crisis
Revolution #1 (1789-1815)
• 1789; popular uprising and constitutional change
• 1791-2: the constitution unravels
• 1792: war. Monarchy overthrown. The 1st republic
June, 1789: Tennis Court Oath
July, 1789: Fall of the Bastille
• 1791-2: the constitution unravels
• 1792: war. Monarchy overthrown. The 1st republic
• 1792-1794 Terror. Civil war. European war.
• Thermidor (July, 1794)
• 1795-1799 The Directory
Execution of Louis 16 (Jan, 1793)
Napoleon’s rise
• 1793 serves under the Terror
• 1795 on serves under the Directory
• 1799 overthrows the Directory
• 1804 ends the 1st republic; proclaims Empire
Under the Directory: The
Italian campaigns
David, Napoleon Crossing the St.
Bernard Pass
Jacques Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon (December 2, 1804)
• Napoleon’s legacies– War and empire– Global ramifications– Law– Institutional stability
– Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon in his study (1812)
Napoleon’s “orientalist” legacy:
• 1798 Invasion of Egypt
• Description de l’Egypte
• Luxor Temple
• Rosetta Stone
• 1814-1815 Congress of Vienna
• The Restoration: Louis 18, then Charles 10
• 1830: The July Revolution “three glorious days”
• Chas overthrown, crown goes to Louis Philippe, duc d’Orléans
Delacroix Liberty Leading the People
Louis Philippe, King of the French (1830-1848)
Place Louis 16, 1829
Building the Place de la Concorde, 1830s
Daumier, Le Ventre Legislatif
Louis Philippe’s star wanes the pear king (poire= nitwit)
1848: Revolution again1848: Revolution again
• Causes: political exclusivity, working-class unrest, European-wide economic crisis of 1840s
• The Second Republic (1848-1852)
• Polarization and bloodshed: the June Days, 1848
From Second Republic to Second Empire
• Presidential elections, 1848
• Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1851 : “Rubicon” declares 10 yr term
• 1852 declares 2nd Empire
• Verdicts:– Karl Marx: history repeats itself, 1st as tragedy, 2nd as
farce– Alexis de Tocqueville, The Ancien Regime and the
Revolution
Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the rebuilding of Paris
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Haussmann’s new streets
Street clearance for the Opéra
The Opéra
• 1870: Franco Prussian War, LNB defeated.
• 1870:1870: 3rd Republic declared
• 1870-18711870-1871 Paris Commune
• May, 1871 - la semaine sanglante (bloody week) - repression of the Commune.
Manet, Café concert
Degas, Chanteuse
au gant1877
Monet, Blvd des
Capucines,1873