"PARIS WAS STILL PALE FROM THE AFFRONT [OF THE PRUSSIAN MARCH] WHEN AN AVALANCHE OF INSULTS ARRIVED FROM
BORDEAUX"
-- Lissagary
"Decapitalizing" Paris by moving the Assembly to Versailles...
- Is felt as an insult to Parisians' suffering during the siege.
- Removes the clientele of about 700 deputies, with that of their families and servants, from merchants whom the siege has left on the verge of bankruptcy.
- Announces monarchy.
Then the Assembly decrees:
- That debts and rents, suspended during the siege, must be paid:
"Manifesting clearly its hostility to Paris, the Assembly decrees the payment of dettes and rents, suspended during the siege. After five months of siege, the city is worn out. It is not signing the armistice that will restart the economy! Most workshops are still closed and a majority of workers and small owners cannot repay their debts. Such a measure can only inflame the rancor of Parisians toward an Assembly of provincial bourgeois."
- The end of guards' pay
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"As if that was not enough, it announces the suppression of daily may to the national guards. How many families in the outskirts live entirely on the pay of a national guard husband or son? After Bismarck, here is Thiers starving the people of Paris!"
- Cancellation of the moratorium on pawned objects: "Starving seamstresses had pawned 1500 scissors... :"
-- The London Times, cited in
"Massacre: life and death of the Paris Commune" by John Merriman, 2015
The first issue of what would become
a much-read newspaper* under La Commune
is a single page that screams,
"We won't pay, we won't pay, WE WON'T PAY!"
-- Vuillaume, an editor
*Le Père Duchesne, which took its name from a famous newspaper of the Revolution
It and five other papers are forbidden, which gives notoriety to those that are less known. Posters maintain communication:
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