EMBLEMATIC SITE, ODD MARKER
It focuses on an implausible shooting and leaves out La Commune.
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Baroness Danute |
The shooting of March 18, 1871
The bolding brings out data unknown to most readers.
After the failure of the night-time expedition to seize the cannons of the national guard by surprise, the first bloodletting took place during the evening of March 18, 1871. General Clément-Thomas, a staunch republican exiled under the Empire returned to participate in the defense of Paris after Sedan, is recognized on place Pigalle, despite his denials and his civilian dress: he seeks General Lecomte, arrested by the insurgents that morning, for having ordered the troops to fire on the crowd. Arrested too, he is taken to the the seat of the Central Committee situated at 6, rue des Rosiers (rebaptized rue de Chevalier de la Barre in 1907).
Condemned to death by a summary judgement, both are shot against the garden wall by their own soldiers.
In brief
Many of the 700 panels
that a right-wing City Hall sponsored in 1992
turn people away from history
by their string of irrelevant data.
As well, the shooting of the generals
"by their own soldiers"
copies the Versaillais invention.
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