So my friend Glen has been calling and emailing from France and saying how ridiculously inexpensive the food and wine is, and just now I got this photo in response to my Ceol mailing:
“I took this snap at the Louvre on Monday that is appropriate for this … it reminded me of a session breaking up because the weapons looked like instruments to me at first glance,” sez he.
And they do! Hey, lazyweb, do you happen to know what this sculpture is called?
Update, via Conrad: The contemptuous iconography of the monument became inappropriate as alliances were formed and it ran counter to the spirit of the Enlightenment. During the Revolution, the gilt bronze statue of the king was melted down, but the Captives, seen as victims of absolute power, were spared and the chains that shackled them were broken.
Captives By Desjardins, or Martin van de BOEGART.
Excellent. Thanks!