VI.2.1. A WAR OF CHOICE BRINGS DISASTER

Allégorie de la siège de Paris ("Allegory of the Siege of Paris") by Ernest Meissonnier, 1870 / zoom

Toward upheaval

• "To Berlin!" cry Parisians

• Hallucinations of an enclosed population 

• Treason?

• Tensions rise

• The Guard becomes a counter-power

• Cannons the army neglects 

• Prussians parade but guards steal the show 

• The Assembly pours oil on the fire

• The cannons on the hills

    

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