6.3.1. Menu: The victors' view
EMBLEMATIC SITE, ODD MARKER
It focuses on an unbelievable shooting and leaves out La Commune.
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Baroness Danute |
The shooting of March 18, 1871
Details incomprehensible to most visitors are bolded up. Most of the 700 panels sponsored by a right-leaning City Hall in 1992 follow the pattern of obscurity and omission of what counts.
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.
Why give two full lines to a change of address and leave out La Commune ?
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As well, that the generals were
"shot by their own soldiers" is invented —
and what comes next largely distorted.
In brief
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