thegetty:Today is Bastille Day.102 years ago today this photograph was made of secondhand book deale
thegetty:Today is Bastille Day.102 years ago today this photograph was made of secondhand book dealer and her stand on the place de la Bastille.224 years ago the Bastille prison housed prohibited books considered as dangerous as prisoners with crimes against the Crown. And 224 years ago today that prison was stormed by angry mobs at the start of the French Revolution. Secondhand Book Dealer, place de la Bastille, 1910-1911, Eugene Atget, Albumen print. J. Paul Getty Museum. -- source link