In the footsteps of the Paris Commune -
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Abandoned in gardens or forgotten in squares, testimonies from the Paris Commune nevertheless remain visible to informed walkers in the streets of the capital.
Known for the illustrious people who are buried there, the Père Lachaise cemetery in the 20th arrondissement also hides one of the most poignant monuments of this revolution: the Federated Wall.
Appreciated by thousands of tourists each year for the panorama it offers over Paris, the Sacré-Coeur is nonetheless a symbolic place of the bloody repression of the Communards.
A "difficult consensus"
Civil war or revolution, massive summary executions, martyrs or hostages, this tragic episode in French history still divides today.
And these forgotten or unrecognized remains bear witness to the “difficult consensus” of memory work according to Eric Fournier, lecturer in contemporary history at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, who took us to visit all these places of memory.
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