V.4. MYSTIFICATION

MENU: 5.4.1. Mystification

THE USUAL VIEW STARTS WITH AN UNLIKELY DRAMA... 

to introduce a Communard violence that was (almost) absent.  

Baroness Danute

"Condemned to death by a cursory judgement, both [generals] are shot by a firing squad of their own soldiers."

Framing the story, 

then and now

• Emblematic site, odd marker

• A firing squad that makes no sense

• Versaillais propaganda that tells the truth

• "The hostages of the rue Haxo," the other publicized killing

• Catholic martyrs whom even the Church forgets

• Whose violence? The comeback of the Versaillais myth 

• Schoolbooks buttress the wanted mindset

• The City Museum before renovation (in 2016-2022)...

• ...and after it

• "To the victors belong the spoils"

• Two historians fight back 

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Emblematic site, odd marker