BUILT IN 1855-1858 IN ANTICIPATION OF ANOTHER INSURRECTION, THE SPACE LARGE ENOUGH TO HOLD SOLDIERS, HORSES AND CANNONS MUST BE THE SITE "WEST" OF THE JAIL...
-- Gérard Conte, Élements de l'histoire de la Commune dans le 13e arrondissement, 1981,
based on archival records.
Where Sérisier and his men left the monks and went on to pursue the fight.
The huge space around Notre-Dame de la Gare was meant for massing troops.
Toward 5 p.m., the battle lost, they faded into their neighborhood. Sérizier, who was too well-known to go home, took refuge in a house on a neighboring street.*
*Rue du Chateau des Rentiers fits the information in the study just mentioned
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