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.
- 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."
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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