Gallery Talk: Gray Area—The Third Estate and the French Revolution
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Join curator Elizabeth Rudy for a deep dive into the French Revolution and its lessons in democracy.
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Cost
This Event is free!
Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the gallery talk. Talks are limited to 18 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.
Location
- In-person only.
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
Neighborhood 9
Dates and Times
.: Tuesday, September 17, 12:30PM – 1PM.
Additional information
Join curator Elizabeth Rudy for a discussion of the life and career of French statesman Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836), portrayed in an 1817 oil painting by Jacques-Louis David. Sieyès’s provocative 1789 essay “What Is the Third Estate?” galvanized public support for democracy, just before the onset of the French Revolution. By the later stage of the revolution, Sieyès became disenchanted by the movement’s violence cause, and he eventually helped Napoleon seize power as emperor.
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