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Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People ( ) is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. A woman of the people with a phrygian cap personifying the concept of Liberty leads the people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen, holding the flag of the French Revolution – the tricolour, which again became France's national flag after these events – in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. The figure of Liberty is also
search for the light in a fragile garden where the colors tremble."
The Salon of Marianne, created in 2004, displays busts of Marianne, the symbol of the Republic from different periods and in different styles. It displays, since 2015, a work by the American graffiti artist JonOne, called "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité", based on Delacroix's famous "Liberty Leading the People;" it symbolizes Youth, the Future and Hope.
There are other notable contemporary works on display in the Palais Bourbon