And to Our Friends in France

We'll return to our usual graphic and contemplate whether to memory-hole last year's embarrassment.*

See you next month!
*July 15, 2019
An Apology To Our French Speaking Friends on the Day After Bastille Day
This is embarrassing.
I mislabeled a painting.
To note yesterday's holiday the blog went with one of Monet's Festival of 30 June 1878 paintings.
The date isn't the problem, I wanted a pic of the tri-color and despite it not representing a Bastille Day scene, thought that with the label folks would understand that we understood.
Ahem.

Claude Monet, Rue Montorgueil, Paris, Festival of 30 June 1878.

This morning I looked at the painting and wondered why it seemed so dark so I went to the website of the Musée d'Orsay and "ah crap". 

That's the Rue St. Denis, not the Rue Montorgueil and it hangs at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. 

It's the fraternal twin of the pic I was going for:

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

The Rue Montorgueil in Paris. Celebration of 30 June 1878
1878
Oil on canvas H. 81; W. 50 cm

Which is at the Musée d'Orsay.

Someone should let the The Paris Review know as well.

However, the fact they got it wrong doesn't matter, we are responsible for our little corner of the internet.

The Musée d'Orsay adds insult to injury by starting their description with:

The Rue Montorgueil, like its twin painting The Rue Saint-Denis (Rouen, musée des Beaux-arts), is often thought to depict a 14 July celebration. In fact it was painted on 30 June 1878 for a festival declared that year by the government celebrating "peace and work". This was one of the events organised for the third Universal Exhibition in Paris a few weeks after it opened, and intended to be a symbol of France’s recovery after the defeat of 1870. As well as demonstrating nationalist enthusiasm, the celebrations of 30 June 1878 were also an opportunity to strengthen the position of the Republican regime, still fragile only a few months after the major confrontations of 1876-1877 between its supporters and the conservatives. It was only two years later, in 1880, that 14 July was designated the French National Day.....

Non! We knew it wasn't 14 July, it's that we messed up the darn paintings.
Easier to go with the little girl and her tri-color.
back in a month.