Before we had cameras, film, video, mobile phones, etc., to help us record the course of human events, we had painters. And France in the years spanning the Revolution, the first Republic and the first Empire had Jacques-Louis David: the photojournalist of his time.
Read all about him in my latest article published in Bonjour Paris, a great on-line resource covering practically everything Parisien!
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