Scenes of July 1830
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Scenes of July 1830 is an oil painting by the French artist Léon Cogniet, from 1830. Today the painting is in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, in Orléans.
Léon Cogniet. Scene of July 1830, 1830
Léon Cogniet self portrait 1818
Flag of France
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The national flag of France is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue, white, and red. The design was adopted during the French Revolution and has remained the national flag since th
Scenes of July 1830
…gaping behind it. In the third the right portion of the flag is soaked in the blood of the martyrs of the revolution, giving it the appearance of the French tricolour. The flags symbolically represent the changing of regimens and the lives lost in several revolutions. It is also known by the alternative title Les…
The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin was one of many world landmarks illuminated in the French flag colours after the November 2015 Paris attacks.
The white flag of the monarchy transformed into the Tricolore as a result of the July Revolution. Scenes of July 1830, painting by Léon Cogniet (1830)
Lamartine Rejecting the Red Flag in Front of the City Hall by Henri Felix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, 1848
The French soldiers started to use white crosses, during the Hundred Years' War, to distinguish themselves from the English soldiers wearing red crosses.