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 room...
- Showed four paintings of fires associated with Communards....
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.
- ...and one work from a Communard perspective:
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and devoted to portraits
of Versaillais generals or government leaders.
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