THE PANEL ON THE SITE WHERE THE GENERALS WERE LYNCHED IS GIBBERISH THAT SKIPS WHAT COUNTS
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Baroness Danute |
The shooting of March 18, 1871
(Bolding mine)
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.
Data unknown to most readers
- What expedition? What cannons? What national guard? What insurgents? What Central Committee?
- Many French people have forgotten the "defense of Paris" and "Sedan," and most foreigners have never heard of them at all.
- Parisians are almost alone to have heard of place Pigalle.
- Why give an address change two full lines...
And leave out La Commune?
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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" is an invention:
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