ELEMENTARY ERRORS, IRRELEVANT DATA AND BEING HIDDEN AWAY CANCEL THAT RELATIVE HONESTY
The hilltop fight
History of Paris
Communards on the Butte-aux-Cailles
"After the seige of Paris the government that has taken refuge in Versailles tries to restore order [misstatement *] in Paris held by the Commune. The Butte aux Cailles, then sparsely inhabited and whose steep slopes dominate the Bievre river, is the theater of a bloody battle on May 25. The guards have their headquarters there [error *]
Their leader, Wroblewski, protects its access by ambushes and light artillery fire.
[...] The Versaillais are pushed back several times, but at the end of the day hold place d'Italie — then place Émil Duval, counselor and Communard general shot in April [irrelevant ***] — and the hill, while numerous insurgents retreat to the right bank of the Seine.
[...] The Versaillais are pushed back several times, but at the end of the day hold place d'Italie — then place Émil Duval, counselor and Communard general shot in April [irrelevant ***] — and the hill, while numerous insurgents retreat to the right bank of the Seine.
* Restore order: A euphemism for taking control. Paris was exceptionally calm.
** Their headquarters were the Gobelins manufactory. Wanting to avoid its barricades explains using the Bièvre via its islands, and so climbing the hill.
*** Emil Duval: Information that has nothing to do with the fight for the hill.
*** Emil Duval: Information that has nothing to do with the fight for the hill.
# # #
The panel is so placed as to be imperceptible:
- If it were on the street as most panels are, one would see it...
- ...but it is placed inside the passage that leads to the hill instead:
Ignorance and irrelevance as elsewhere,
plus invisibility.
End of this section.
* * *
Next section,
No comments:
Post a Comment