"THE FUTURE SPRINGS UP FROM BEHIND"

 

THE VIOLENT, TRAGIC AND IN MANY WAYS SUCCESSFUL STRUGGLES OF THE PAST EXPLAIN THE INFINITELY HAPPIER CITY OF TODAY

"We've forgotten 1848, but we still hear the Commune scream," I recall a professor saying in the 1960's. The militants of the Popular Front and the members of the French Resistance,  looked back to it. 

 "The future is not what is in front of us, 

but springs up from behind." 

-- Rahel Levin

Heroines and songs of La Commune, seen under street art in the 13th.

Almost, but not quite,

the end of the blook.

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Epilogues