Simon Schama: “It’s no accident that, as I write, the front line of the street battles is at the perimeter of the National Museum … Partly that’s because when civil authority dissolves, the temptation to plunder is usually irresistible; and partly because all revolutions have at least an iconoclastic streak in them. … At stake, too, is what you might call the psychology of patriotic honour – an intense matter in any revolution.”