THE HILLTOP LOST, GENERAL WALERY WROBLEWSKY REFUSED THE COMMAND OF THE REMAINING TROOPS AND FOUGHT ON AS AN ORDINARY SOLDIER:
Mosaic outside the seat of Les amis de la Commune
The Polish nobleman exiled for participating in the insurrection of 1863 survived in Paris by lighting street lamps, then as a typographer.
La Commune defeated, he managed to flee to England. With the help of Marx, Engels and Polish refugees he founded a printing establishment and published Lissagary's account. He returned to Paris in 1885. He died there in 1908, deeply admired by the Polish community but extremely poor.
-- Unsigned article in a publication of Les Amis de la Commune, n° 33, 2008.
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The legendary 101st battalion: "Rage alone commands those demons," of the 13th or Mouffetard,* "undisciplined, hoarse, with torn clothes and banner, who mutiny if they rest and as soon as
they have been withdrawn from battle, must be plunged into it again."
-- Lissagary
*Where Hemingway hears Communard memories.
Sérizier, the commander:
Cover photo
Eléments de l'histoire de la Commune du 13e arrondissement by Gérard Conte, 1989
Marie Jean-Baptiste Sérizier wears his cap boldly to the side and looks intensely into the camera as he leans against his sword.
A Communist tanner and militant,
he blustered, drank, beat his wife
and was an extremely brave and effective soldier.
For his last fight,
please click back.
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