LECOMTE AND ESPECIALLY CLÉMENT BECAME
MARTYRED HEROES FOR THE RIGHT
In this movie of 1914 a Communard mob shoots them because Lecomte had come to seize the cannons, which Clément wanted for the battle of Buzenval.
- Lie of fact: since Buzenval took place in January 1871 and the attempt to seize the cannons in March, the film's point of departure is impossible.
- Lies by omission: Lecomte's order to fire on the crowd; Clément's role in June, and his approving the Buzenval attack that he knew suicidal.
The movie ends with the sculpture "To the Victims of Revolutions," making the generals' death a response to uprisings as a whole:
"Running along the Père Lachaise [cemetery], the "wall" of Gambetta Square, the base relief of Paul Moreau-Vautier that its author titled "To victims of revolutions."
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The work became a pendant to the left's commemorative site,
the cemetery wall against which the last fighters for La Commune were shot...
City Museum (Musée Carnavalet), to my knowledge not exhibited
...and where La Commune is commemorated
every year in May.
Part of the massive 170-year commemoration in 2021
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