Painting, Musee du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle, France
Jean Sylvain Bailly proclaimed president of the National Assembly, oil painting on canvas, 1832, by Leon Cognate, 1794-1880, in the Musee du Nouveau Monde, or New World Museum, opened 1982 in the Hotel Fleuriau, an 18th century mansion home to merchant Aime-Benjamin Fleuriau, 1707-1877, in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The crowd cheers the election of the president, while black men stand over broken chains. The museum explores links between France and the Americas, including the slave trade. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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