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  1. 🇫🇷 Bastille Day 🇫🇷 or Fête Nationale, commemorates the day in 1789 when the people charged into Paris’ Bastille, during the French Revolution. The first celebration happened July 14, 1790 - one year later.

    Originally constructed as a medieval fortress, the Bastille was eventually used as a state prison, holding political prisoners who spoke against the laws set by the king.

    1) Paris, 1958, Johan Van Der Keuken
    2) 1938, Lucien Aigner
    3) Paris, 1936, Robert Capa
    4) Lovers of the Bastille, Paris, 1957, Willy Ronis

    #bastilleday #fêtenationale #bastille #johanvanderkeuken #lucienaigner #robertcapa #willyronis #photography #photographer #photographers #bwphoto #bwphotography #noiretblanc #frenchrevolution #celebration #history #paris #loversofthebastille #happybastilleday #schwarzweiss #schwarzweissfotografie #negroyblanco

  2. archive.org/details/slavery-an

    Slavery and the French Revolutionists (1788-1805) by Anna Julia Cooper; Frances Richardson Keller

    Topics
    #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #antiblackness, #frenchrevolution, #HaitianRevolution, #frenchempire, #frenchcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #Haiti, #paris, #translatlanticslavetrade, #abolitionists, #abolitionism, #Martinique, #Matinik, #Matnik, #counterrevolution

    The first translation and publication of a 1925 doctoral dissertation written for the University of Paris by a 67-year-old Black amerikan expatriate woman who had been born a slave. Her study of the french revolutionists' view of slavery is crucial to understanding the growth of human rights.