x.ii. OMISSIONS BY TRUSTED AUTHORITIES

La Commune as shown by the City Museum: The beautiful woman was the compagnon of Communard Jules Vallès — in the 1880's. She was 13 at the time of the upheaval, and had nothing to do with it.

Schoolbooks

Political narratives replace social forces, insurrections are almost absent and individuals replace collective action. 

 

The City Museum

 

• A spectacular homage to the elites

• A French Revolution that is almost peaceful  

• Insurrections as shown before the museum's renovation.

• The Revolution of 1830: Capitalism wins and modish fighters replace plebeians.

• The February Revolution of 1848: Fighting that is (almost) deleted.

• The June Days of 1848: Two sentences at the back of the room and barricades become a game for kids.

• La Commune before the renovation... 

• And after it, via the link above.

Monuments

• Camouflage at the Louvre   xxx

• Marie-Antoinette's cell replaced by a tablet (the Conciergerie)xxx

• Napoleon's tomb: Straight streets lead to a sepulchre. Whose? 

• The Arc de Triumph's lame homage to the plebes

• The July Column, as evasive

• Ignoring the evidence and getting away with it (the Opéra)

Historical panels

 

• The Asian towers of the 13th

• Emblematic site, incompréhensible panel

• A place where the past is deleted

• La Commune is finally mentioned but...

• Vanished industry  

• For an exception, please scroll all the way down.

Establishment accounts

are more sophisticated than social media 

but their bias is often as misleading. 

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Dramas that show how things work