VI.3.2. THAT VIEW RETURNS

Menu: 6.3.2. That view returns

FOR A GENERATION AFTER WORLD WAR II HISTORIANS MOVED LEFT

Since about 1980, that has changed. Here a teacher sweeps her class past the tiny space the musée Carnavalet grants La Commune. She does not mention it.

 French historians shift to the right.

• Whose violence? The comeback of the Versaillais myth 

• A page from a 2016 schoolbook

• Correct the errors, buttress the mindset

• The Carnavalet before renovation (in 2016-2022)...

• And after it

• The Saint-Denis museum follows the same evolution

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Whose violence? 

The comeback of the Versaillais myth