This Thursday is commemorated 150 years of the Paris Commune.
This brief 72-day popular revolution, which began on March 18, 1871, ended in a bloodbath.
The memory of this event is a field of struggle between the left-wing majority in the town hall of Paris and the right-wing opposition.
As we are getting ready to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, the city's elected officials are tearing each other apart on the land of remembrance.
The elected representatives of the right, in particular, denounce a blissful vision of this bloody event carried by the left.
The latter emphasizes the values defended by the Communards which still resonate today.
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"The Commune was still a moment of rare violence. It was a bloodbath, the destruction of Paris," says Rudolphe Granier, LR adviser in Paris.
Like other members of the opposition, he denounces political opportunism on the part of the mayor of the capital, Anne Hidalgo.
"[She] wishes to take only a few very positive elements from the Municipality while we are proposing to have a balanced view", asks the elected official.
Warning against the risk of a "happy revisionism", Rudolphe Granier goes so far as to qualify his opponents as "Communards of 2021".
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Ideas "which still irrigate the political debate"
For his part, the socialist deputy, Patrick Bloch, claims the heritage of the Commune which is part of the history of the left: "we commemorate the Paris Commune because it is part of the history of Paris. We obviously pay tribute to the women and men who have paid with their lives, because the repression was terrible, the fact of having carried ideals. "
According to him, the 72 days of the commune made it possible to defend ideas "which still irrigate the political debate".
Its objectives are still pursued by left activists today.