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OF COURSE BILLIONAIRE-OWNED MEDIA DOWNPLAY LA COMMUNE. BUT PUBLICLY-FUNDED AUTHORITIES DO TOO

All aspects of society reinforce the ruling groups, not always deliberately: like the insult of the humble, "Your father was a valet!"

This schoolbook chooses an illustration of an individual (Louise Michel), not of the mass rising, in its brief section on La Commune. 

• Buttressing the individual to erase the collective

• A page on La Commune

• The City Museum before renovation

• And after it

• Whose violence? The comeback of the Versaillais myth

• Two historians fight back

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Buttressing the individual to erase the collective