Saturday, April 25, 2015

COMMEMORATIONS OF THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT


LECOMTE AND ESPECIALLY CLÉMENT BECOME MARTYRS
FOR THE RIGHT
 
In this movie of 1914 a Communard mob shoots 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, that point of departure is impossible.





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."

 Aux victimes des révolutions ("To the victims of revolutions") by Paul Moreau-Vautier / zoom

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The work replied to the cemetery wall against which the last Communard fighters were shot and where La Commune had been commemorated since 1880.

Le Cimetière du Père-Lachaise Dimanche 28 mai 1871 ("The Père-Lachaise Cemetery. Sunday, May 28, 1871"by Alfred Darjou / zoom
-- Musée Carnavalet, not exhibited 

 Part of the massive 170-year commemoration in 2021

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