"The Paris Commune is not dead" (1/2): building the dream
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Place de la Bastille, 2021. A poster from the Raspouteam collective reminiscent of the Commune on the walls of Paris.
© Raspouteam
By: Céline Develay Mazurelle Follow
51 mins
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, the latest revolution in French history, we are following in the footsteps of these events which marked the spirits, the capital and its Parisian people.
Because from March 18 to May 28, 1871, for 72 days, an unprecedented attempt at a democratic and social Republic was played out, ultimately repressed in a bloodbath, from siege to barricades, from the center of Paris to its suburbs, between Versaillais and Communards.
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150 years later, the memory of this popular and workers' insurrection still divides and revives political divisions.
Largely absent from the republican narrative, from major national commemorations or from school textbooks, it is therefore necessary to seek this story, even on the Parisian pavement, in order to grasp the stakes, the ideals which it carried and the repression of which it made the object.
This is what Sarah Lefèvre did, from the Butte aux Cailles to the Butte Montmartre, from the Tuileries to Père Lachaise, to meet those who maintain the memory of the Paris Commune and seek to combine it with time. present.
“
The Paris Commune is not dead”: a two-part series by Sarah Lefèvre
.
For further :
- To read and listen:
-
The blog of Michèle Audin
, French writer passionate about the Paris Commune
-
The illustrated newspaper of the Municipality of the Raspouteam collective
and the thematic programs broadcast on Fréquence Paris Plurielle
- “
Paris 1871, history in motion, 21 walking tours in the footsteps of the Commune
” by Josef Ulla, published by Libertarians (2020)
- "
The Commune in the present, A correspondence beyond time
" by Ludivine Bantigny, published by La Découverte (2021)
- "
The Commune is not dead, The political uses of the past from 1871 to the present day
" by Eric Fournier, published by Libertalia (2013)
- “
Le Cri du Peuple
”, a comic strip by Tardi and Vautrin, published by Casterman (republished in 2021).
- To have :
- The reference film “La Commune (Paris, 1871)” by Peter Watkins, 2000. To watch on the website
of the Tënk documentary platform
- The film “
Les Damnés de la commune
”, documentary by Raphaël Meyssan, 2019.
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