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The Storming of the Bastille (French: Prise de la Bastille [pʁiz də la bastij]) occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, when revolutionary insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armoury, fortress and political prison known as the Bastille. After four hours of fighting and 94 deaths, the insurgents were able to ...
Siege of the Bastille (French: La Prise de la Bastille) is a gouache painting by Claude Cholat depicting the Storming of the Bastille. The painting is now in the Carnavalet Museum in Paris , France .
Shortly after the accession of Louis-Philippe I, Delaroche, Cogniet, Schnetz and Drolling were commissioned to paint four large canvases for the Throne Room in the Hôtel de Ville to celebrate the heroes of the revolutions of July 1789 and July 1830. Delaroche was charged with depicting “the People returning victorious from the Bastille”.
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Siege of the Bastille. Claude Cholat was a wine merchant living in Paris on the Rue Noyer at the start of the French Revolution in 1789. He created the painting La Prise de la Bastille (Siege of the Bastille) after the storming of the Bastille in 1789. [1] During the storming, he operated a cannon and fought for the National Guard. [1]
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Oil painting by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand depicting the arrest of de Launay during the storming of the Bastille, ( Musée de la Révolution française ). Unlike Sombreuil , the governor of the Hôtel des Invalides , who had accepted the revolutionaries' demands earlier that day, de Launay refused to surrender the prison fortress and hand over the ...
An eyewitness painting of the siege of the Bastille by Claude Cholat [S] ... The storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 had been celebrated annually since 1790, ...