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The subtle art of revolution
In your January edition, you published an article on French history by Jean-Marie Rouart (p15: The enduring myth of France despite dark times).
You illustrated it with an image of the painting Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix, above a caption, “The revolution is a favourite period for French people but most are unaware of the subtleties of their history”.
The picture does not relate to “the revolution” (ie, 1789) but to the more modest revolution of 1830, which only lasted a few days and resulted in the abdication of Charles X and the accession of Louis-Philippe. Maybe this is the sort of subtlety you were referring to?
Jonathan BARCLAY, Gerde
A good spot. In the name of Marianne, we apologise for the oversight!
