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Source: France 24
A painting that is the enduring image of the French revolution and adorned the 100-franc note for nearly two decades has been vandalised by a woman who tagged the canvas with an indelible black marker pen.
An iconic symbol of the French Revolution was tagged late on Thursday in an attack on a national symbol that forced the Louvres Lens museum to shut its doors on Friday.
The vandal, a 29-year-old woman, targeted one of Frances best known paintings Liberty Leading the People painted by Eugène Delacroix in 1830.
The painting shows a bare-breasted female figure bearing aloft the French Tricolor with one hand and a musket in the other.
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By a "truther", no less. Sigh.