Rue Montorgueil in Paris

“An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

on bastille day, all these years later, let history remind us that change is always possible. 

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art credit: Claude Monet, The Rue Montorgueil in Paris 1878