ABSTRACT
Deploying an animalistic and atavistic ethnographic slur on children of the people, Chateaubriand imparted a premature and perverse sexuality to the gamins. Even though the political gears shifted, figures of the gamin de Paris appearing in the plethora of images of street fighting during the "Three Glorious Days" of the Revolution of 1830 for the most part remained comparably ancillary and small in scale, usually standing at the margins in popular lithographs, as well as in modern history genre paintings of recent events shown the following year at the Salon of 1831. In a lithograph Defense d'une barricade le 28 juillet 1830, designed by Pierre Martinet, a gamin in a smock just left of center pilfers cartridges from a fallen royal soldier's ammunition bag that is quite similar to the one worn by Delacroix's urchin to the right of Liberty.
