Romantic History: Waterloo to the British Musem
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The Making and the Unmaking of the Revolutionary in the Napoleonic Louvre
The making and the unmaking of the revolutionary in the napoleonic louvre is one of those extraordinary phenomena that still shapes almost every debate to day. The impact of the returning works and the consciousness of those who'd lost them, is a remarkable phenomenon. France is an in what a letter a ruler would call im certainide de la france is embodied in the ruve as gathering all european culture,. holding it, protecting it, explaining it. And when they were asked for their loss, the fact that they had been removed becomes a very important constituent element in new national identity.
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