'Scenes of July 1830' by Léon Cogniet (1830), romanticizing the genesis of the Republican French flag, after the white flag of the French kings was torn by gunfire and drenched in blood. - History Education Network

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‘Scenes of July 1830’ by Léon Cogniet (1830), romanticizing the genesis of the Republican French flag, after the white flag of the French kings was torn by gunfire and drenched in blood.

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