"FRIENDS OF THE PARIS COMMUNE"

 

AN ASSOCIATION CREATED BY FORMER COMMUNARDS RETURNED FROM EXILE OR DEPORTATION

(In 1882) 

  

46 rue des Cinq-Diamants,13th
https://www.commune1871.org/

Exceptionally, a teacher explains La Commune to kids.

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A plaque at Père Lachaise cemetery recalls the the shootings.

This is the original. Damaged by the passage of time it was given to the association, which exhibits it in its locale:

"To the Commune's fallen,

May 21-28 1871"

Volunteers inform the public every weekday afternoon. Some visitors...

"I'll give this to my granddaughter"

(The t-shirt shows Louise Michel)

Railroad-worker militants

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At the annual fête actors present the epic:

 

Alain Leiblanc

MC Willard

"We used to be alone. 

Now 20 organizations have joined us,"

a volunteer said.

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