Scenes from the Revolution of 1830 in Paris Titled “Game of the Heroes of the Memorable Days of July,” these hand-colored playing cards portray incidents from the uprising in Paris in July 1830. The captions at the bottom read, from left, “Duty unto Death”; “Making the Bullets of Patriotism”; “Aid to the Ill-Fated Brave One”; and “The Amazon of 1830.” These fanciful yet moving scenes idealize the revolutionary zeal of the ordinary men and women who fought government troops and helped overthrow the rule of King Charles X. In reality, though, their efforts replaced the king but not the system.

(Musée de la Ville de Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France/Bridgeman Images)