"The Paris Commune is not dead" (2/2): breaking the revolt
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In the streets of Paris, posters of the Raspouteam collective recall the memory of the Commune on the walls of the city.
© 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 of which it was the bearer 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
.
To go further
:
- To read :
- "
The Municipality of 1871 explained in pictures
", by Laure Godineau, Éditions Seuil (2021)
- “
The Bloody Week
”, by Michèle Audin, Libertalia Publishing (2021)
- "
Paris 1871, history in motion, 21 walking tours in the footsteps of the Commune
", by Josef Ulla, with Libertarian Editions (2020)
- “The Municipality, History and memories”, by Louise Michel, Éditions La Découverte-Poche (2015)
- “Memories of a living dead, a woman in the Municipality of 1871”, by Victorine Brocher, Éditions Libertalia (2017)
- “The Insurgent”, by Jules Vallès, Livre de Poche editions (1972).
- 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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