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The revolutionary government sought to mobilise the loyalty of its subjects through various means –one of them was the staging of festivals like this one. Symbols from civilisations of Ancient Greece and Rome were used to convey the aura of a hallowed history. The pavilion on the raised platform in the middle carried by classical columns was made of perishable material that could be dismantled.

Describe the groups of people, their clothes, their roles and actions. What impression of a revolutionary festival does this image convey.

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The group of people can be described as follows:

They are nobles. They wore a high dress. The women wore Baroque/Rococo dresses, with wide skirts and corsets and lots of lace. In the political system of pre-Revolutionary France, the nobility made up the Second Estate of the Estates-General (with the Catholic clergy comprising the First Estate and the bourgeoisie and peasants in the Third Estate).

Although membership in the noble class was mainly inherited, it was not a completely closed order. A noble title was not fair and honorific: it also endowed its owner with certain rights and privileges, most notably an exception from personal taxes.

These exclusions became a significant cause of the French Revolution, as France's Third Estate (commoners) realised they were carrying the financial burden of the country. This image conveys an expression of loyalty, equality and fraternity amongst the citizens of France after so much food shortage and obeying the rules and laws of the monarch.

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