VI.3.2. THAT VIEW RETURNS

Menu: 6.3.2. That view returns

FOR A GENERATION AFTER WORLD WAR II, THE FRENCH VIEW OF THE PAST WAS USUALLY INFLUENCED BY THE LEFT

Toward 1980, that changed. Here a teacher sweeps her class past the tiny space the musée Carnavalet grants La Commune. She does not mention it and the students pay no attention as they pass through.

The shift to the right

• Whose violence? The comeback of the Versaillais myth 

• A page from a 2016 schoolbook

• Correct the errors, buttress the ads

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

• And after it

• The museum of a working-class bastion backs down

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Whose violence? 

The comeback of the Versaillais myth