Problem 1: Hôtels, Salons, and cafés of the eighteenth century. Whose power is being represented and how in each of these spaces? What is the difference between an hôtel and a palais in Paris?
Problem 2: The Palais -Royal. Be able to compare it to Versailles and to an hôtel. Explain its importance in the French Revolution.
Problem 3: The Bastille. Be able to explain its importance on July 14th 1789, and how, though destroyed, it remains important. What happened there?
Problem 4: The Faubourg St. Antoine. Who lived there during this period? What types of power were expressed there?
Problem 5: The Hôtel de Ville.
What is the Hôtel de Ville? What happened there in July 1789? How was power shifted from the central government to the city of Paris?
The Hôtel de Ville in the Revolution of 1830 and the Revolution of 1848. Why were these political revolutions accomplished at the Hôtel de Ville?
Problem 6: Barricades
Barricaede is 1830 and 1834 and in February 1848 and in June 1848:
What is a barricade and why do barricades become the symbol of revolution? Whose revolution? Be able to discuss Liberty Leading the People and The Massacre on the rue Transnonain. What happened on the rue Transnonain? What happened in the June Days (1848)?