V.2. "THE TERRIBLE YEAR" 1870-1871

MENU: 5.2. "The Terrible Year"

THE SECOND EMPIRE PROVOKES WAR WITH PRUSSIA TO SUPPRESS CHALLENGE FROM THE LEFT.

The result is military debacle, the siege of Paris, La Commune and the civil war and frightful repression that follow.

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Defeat and revolution

• A war of choice brings disaster

• Explosion

• Civil war and carnage

• Ruins. Vengeance. Evolution

• Mystification: Old School, now and two historians fight back

• Fraternity that worked

• An omen and a turning point

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