By the sword and the plow: Theodore Chasseriau's Cour des Comptes murals and Algeria.
From: The Art Bulletin
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Date: 12/1/2004
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Author: Miller, Peter Benson
On May 23, 1871, the Palais d'Orsay was ravaged by a fire during the wave of incendiary violence set off by the popular uprising in Paris following the Franco-Prussian War. As the seat of two powerful government agencies, the Cour des Comptes and the Conseil d'Etat, the Palais d'Orsay became a target of the Communards' iconoclastic rampage claiming monuments associated with the autocratic regime of Napoleon III. A further casualty of the conflagration was the mural cycle painted by ...
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