{"product_id":"paul-barras-tea-towels","title":"Paul Barras Tea Towel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, survived the Terror, helped bring it to an end at Thermidor, and went on to become the most powerful of the five Directors who governed France between 1795 and 1799. He introduced Napoleon Bonaparte to Joséphine de Beauharnais. He was present at nearly every pivotal moment of the Revolutionary decade and outlived most of the men who shared those moments with him. His portrait belongs in any serious French interior, including the kitchen.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe image is printed at high definition onto quality cotton at 27.6″ × 19.7″, with the full tonal range of the original portrait preserved: the richness of the period dress, the directness of the gaze, the particular atmosphere of French academic painting at its most politically charged. This is a towel that earns its place on a hook. It looks well folded over an oven rail, draped across a sink edge, or simply hanging where it can be seen. The history it carries is not incidental. It is the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart of La Révolution. Barras entered the Revolution as a minor aristocrat and emerged from it as its most durable survivor — a Jacobin who voted for the execution of Louis XVI, then organized the Thermidorian coup that ended Robespierre’s reign. His contemporaries variously despised and depended on him. History has not been entirely kind to him, which makes him considerably more interesting than most of his era’s official heroes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Contrado","offers":[{"title":"Cotton-Linen - 95% cotton 5% linen","offer_id":43145483976771,"sku":"2969431","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Panama Cotton - 100% Cotton","offer_id":43145484009539,"sku":"2969431","price":38.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/5188\/0515\/files\/2969431_0_3d.jpg?v=1776180842","url":"https:\/\/www.vintagevoyagersfrance.com\/products\/paul-barras-tea-towels","provider":"Vintage Voyagers France","version":"1.0","type":"link"}