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Three peasants from La Versanne who cut down a tree were guillotined in Lyon, [10] and a miller from Mas-Grenier was also guillotined in Toulouse for the same offence. [11] On the other hand, the revolutionary Marie Joseph Chalier planned to use a large ditch around the Tree of Liberty to smoke the blood of the guillotine victims on Pont Moraud ...
The Occitan cross (Occitan: crotz occitana [ˈkɾuts utsiˈtanɔ] ⓘ), also called cross of Occitania (crotz d'Occitània), cross of Languedoc (crotz de Lengadòc) or cross of Toulouse (crotz de Tolosa), [a] heraldically "cross cleché, pommettée and voided", is a heraldic cross, today chiefly used as a symbol of Occitania.
As Marianne was the symbol of the republic and everything it stood for, under Vichy Marianne was demonized as the most "offensive" symbol of the republic. [26] There was a strong misogyny to Vichy's attacks on Marianne under Vichy's ideology there were two sorts of women; the "virgin and the whore" with Joan being cast as the former and ...
Marianne, a national emblem of France, is a personification of Liberty and Reason.She is present in many places in France and holds a place of honor in town halls and law courts.
The concept of liberty has frequently been represented by personifications, often loosely shown as a female classical goddess. [1] Examples include Marianne, the national personification of the French Republic and its values of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, and the female Liberty portrayed in artworks, on United States coins beginning in 1793, and many other depictions.
[2] With the absence of the king, the French Republic sought a new national symbol. It was from these tumultuous times that the French symbol of Marianne emerged. The French Revolution not only challenged the political authority of the Old Regime led by the monarchy; it also challenged the traditional symbols that had thus far defined the ...
Marguerite de Bévotte (1982), La Nostre Dame de Grasse du musée des Augustins de Toulouse et le rayonnement de son art dans les régions voisines à la fin de l’ère gothique ("The Notre Dame de Grasse of the Augustins Museum in Toulouse and the radiance of its art in the neighboring regions at the end of the Gothic era"), P. Carrère, Rodez
Lady Tholose (French: Dame Tholose) is the name given to a bronze sculpture from the Toulouse Renaissance, a work by the sculptor Jean Rancy and the bronze caster Claude Peilhot. Under the features of the goddess Pallas Athena, it is an allegory of the city of Toulouse .