Painting #D02 - The Bastille Day

The Storming of the Bastille
[on 14 July 1789]
- Jean-Pierre Houël (1735–1813, French)
- watercolor (51 x 38 cm) in 1789
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France

The Storming of the Bastille (for weapons), starting the French Revolution.

The poor:

Idealized sans-culotte
(pantaloons or trousers)
by Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845) 

... against the rich and powerful:

Louis XVI
dressed in culottes
(knee-breeches) 

Une exécution capitale,
 place de la Révolution (Place de la Concorde)
- Pierre-Antoine Demachy (1723-1807, French)
- oil on paper on canvas (37 x 53.5 cm) 1793
- Musée Carnavalet (Paris)

On 30 June 1878, a feast was officially arranged in Paris to honour the French Republic (the event was commemorated in a painting by Claude Monet).

Rue Montorgueil, Paris,
Festival of June 30, 1878
- Claude Monet (1840-1926, French)
- oil (81 x 50 cm) in 1878
- Musée d'Orsay (Paris)

The National Flag of France

.... is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue (hoist side), white, and red,

... which represent liberté, équalité, and fraternité, respectively. 

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (1738–1826, French)
- oil on panel (71 x 56 cm) c.1789
- Musée Carnavalet (Paris)

Source: Wikipedia