IV.3.1.c. CIVIL WAR AND CARNAGE

MENU: 4.3.1.c. Civil war & carnage

"BLOODY WEEK:" KILLINGS BY VERSAILLAIS* ANNOUNCE

 20TH-CENTURY MASSACRES  

(MAY 21-28, 1871) 

* As the the Versailles government's troops were called 

Civil war by Édouard Manet, 1871 / zoom

The drawing's title is generic. But the church in the background is the Madeleine, the barricade is emblematic of Paris and the corpse, who holds a white rag, wears a guard's uniform. 

In brief

• A fight of the poor

• The slaughter of the wretched   

• Escape by socializing with the enemy

• The Latin Quarter after victory

• The fate of a political painter

• Soldiers whom officers mistrust

• The officers' responsibility

• The adversaries

• Parisian sequels

• The past sways pop culture: Piaf and Sinatra

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A fight of the poor