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Cross-sectional view of Newton’s Cenotaph (1784) by Étienne-Louis Boullée.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8d0e8453-420d-40b9-bb3f-db8e90d9a165

#france #forms #designs #tombs #frenchrevolution #fantasyarchitecture #spheres #monuments #utopias #ink #geometry #architecture #isaacnewton #theimpossible #design #painting #drawing #art #publicdomain

Cross-sectional view of Newton’s Cenotaph (1784) by Étienne-Louis Boullée.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8d0e8453-420d-40b9-bb3f-db8e90d9a165

#france #forms #designs #tombs #frenchrevolution #fantasyarchitecture #spheres #monuments #utopias #ink #geometry #architecture #isaacnewton #theimpossible #design #painting #drawing #art #publicdomain

Cross-sectional view of Newton’s Cenotaph (1784) by Étienne-Louis Boullée.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8d0e8453-420d-40b9-bb3f-db8e90d9a165

#france #forms #designs #tombs #frenchrevolution #fantasyarchitecture #spheres #monuments #utopias #ink #geometry #architecture #isaacnewton #theimpossible #design #painting #drawing #art #publicdomain

Cross-sectional view of Newton’s Cenotaph (1784) by Étienne-Louis Boullée.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8d0e8453-420d-40b9-bb3f-db8e90d9a165

#france #forms #designs #tombs #frenchrevolution #fantasyarchitecture #spheres #monuments #utopias #ink #geometry #architecture #isaacnewton #theimpossible #design #painting #drawing #art #publicdomain

Cross-sectional view of Newton’s Cenotaph (1784) by Étienne-Louis Boullée.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8d0e8453-420d-40b9-bb3f-db8e90d9a165

#france #forms #designs #tombs #frenchrevolution #fantasyarchitecture #spheres #monuments #utopias #ink #geometry #architecture #isaacnewton #theimpossible #design #painting #drawing #art #publicdomain

The #Lion #Monument in #Lucerne #Switzerland, designed by #BertelThorvaldson and hewn by #LukasAhorn. It #commemorates the #SwissGuards who were #killed during the #FrenchRevolution, when revolutionaries stormed the #TuileriesPalace. #MarkTwain described it as "the most #mournful and moving piece of #stone in the world."

https://archive.org/details/slavery-and-the-french-revolutionists

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.