Quel horizon l'on voit du haut de la barricade

Certain places, such as battlefields and houses of ill-repute, were more often the subject of censorship in the nineteenth century than others, not just for the stories they told, but for the other narrative structures they suggested. This article focuses on one such place, the barricade, in the works of Dumas, Flaubert, Hugo, Delacroix, and Manet. I analyze the way in which multiple discourses meet in these images, creating an ambiguity authorities found sub-versive, since in both victory and defeat the barricade suggested the possibility of resistance to power. (In French) (JB)