PARISIAN SEQUELS

AS SOON AS "THE THICK SMOKE FROM WHICH A NAUSEOUS ODOR EMANATED" DISSIPATED, PARISIANS WHO HAD FLED RETURNED

-- "Thick smoke...": Louise Michel

They dishonor the dead:

Paris after the Commune by Frédéric Dix, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Denis / not exhibited

Young women on pont Neuf who are "all dressed up" use their parasols to lift caps placed on dead men's eyes. 

-- Lissagary

For the prosperous, life soon goes on as before...

Pont Neuf in 1872 by Paul Renoir / zoom

Pont Neuf a year later

Or improves.

Hôtel Effrusi, 81 rue Monceau, 8th.  Internet / no photographer named

Private mansions are built in the prosperous west: This banker's residence is finished in summer 1871.  

-- The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, 2010

But for the poor... 

Paris after the Commune by Frédéric Dix, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Denis / not exhibited   

"Women hid handfuls of seeds and furtively planted them

in cemetery ditches."

"They were watched and grossly insulted, but the ditches were always flowered. 

Madame Gentil, whose husband had fought in '48 and perhaps even in 1830, for years left her door ajar so that he could return without attracting attention. 

After June, he had come home one night [...] "  

 -- Louise Michel

 A mass grave

Internet / no more information

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