COMMEMORATIONS OF THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT

LECOMTE AND ESPECIALLY CLÉMENT BECAME MARTYRS

FOR THE RIGHT

 

In this movie of 1914 a Communard mob shoot them because Lecomte has come to seize the cannons, which Clément wants 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 begins with an impossible point of departure.

• 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 was a pendant to the left's commemorative site, 

the cemetery wall against which the last fighters for La Commune were shot and where La Commune has been commemorated every May since 1880.

     The Père-Lachaise Cemetery. Sunday, May 28, 1871 by Alfred Darjou / zoom

City Museum (Musée Carnavalet), to my knowledge not exhibited 

 Part of the massive 170-year commemoration in 2021

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