'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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My mother, 20, posing in her white satin gown on her wedding day. 1947

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My great grandfather and his daughters Texas 1930s

A victim recovered after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, 1912.

Future WWII hero & French president Charles De Gaulle with his daughter Anne in the 1930’s. Anne was born with down syndrome but was never institutionalized, as was common at the time, & lived with her family until the end of her life. She died of pneumonia in 1948 at the age of 20 (1310×900)

‘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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