Imaging the French Revolution Discussion
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1. Are images vital sources of historical knowledge that have been insufficiently exploited?
 
images as sources Lynn Hunt, 5-31-03, 5:48 PM
RE: images as sources Wayne Hanley, 6-6-03, 9:29 AM
RE: Images as Sources (June 22, 2003) Barbara Day-Hickman, 6-22-03, 4:40 PM
reading images Lynn Hunt, 6-23-03, 10:44 PM
historical knowledge Vivian Cameron, 7-5-03,
5:15 PM
Some belated comments Warren Roberts, 7-9-03,
10:53 AM
A postscript Warren Roberts 7-9-03, 11:28 AM
More on images as sources Joan B. Landes, 7-12-03,
2:33 PM
RE: More on images as sources Vivian Cameron
7-26-03, 4:22 PM

Subject: A postscript
Posted By: Warren Roberts
Date Posted: 7-9-03, 11:28 AM

Images sometimes lead to misunderstanding. One example is Prieur’s “Arrest of the King at Varennes.” Prieur shows a crowd breaking into an inn where the King, the Queen, and their retinue are seated at a table having an evening meal. The illustration is wrong in all ways; what Prieur shows never happened. Yet this image has been included often in histories of the Revolution, sometimes without explanation and needed corrections. Some historians have paid so little attention to images that when they include illustrations in their books they sometimes, in effect, misinform their readers. One might even say that they dispense false knowledge.
 
 
 
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