THE CITY MUSEUM BEFORE RENOVATION (in 2016-2022)...

IN 2010 THIS EYE-LEVEL PLAQUE WAS INSTANTLY VISIBLE

 

In 2016 it had been moved to a dark corner near the floor and I had to search to find it... 

"The fights that marked the end of the Commune were extremely violent, the Versailles troops shooting without judgement all the subjects they arrested. General Mac-Mahon, chief of operations, admitted 17,000 executions, a number that should doubtless be raised."

La Commune occupied two minuscule rooms at the back of the third floor. The first showed...

• Paintings of fires associated with Communards, by four luminous works that lit up the gloom:

The Fires of 1871 by Gustave Boulanger, 1871 / zoom

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As with earlier combat scenes, violence merged into the city scape. There was no reference to destruction by the army.  

• The only work from a Communard perspective:

  Execution of a drummer boy during the Commune by Alfred Roll / zoom

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The second room was sunlit, 

and devoted to portraits 

of Versaillais generals or government leaders.

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