"PARIS WAS STILL PALE FROM THE AFFRONT
[OF THE PRUSSIAN MARCH]
WHEN AN AVALANCHE OF INSULTS
ARRIVED FROM BORDEAUX"
-- Lissagary
"Decapitalizing" Paris by transferring
the Assembly to Versailles...
- Is felt an insult Parisians' suffering during the siege.
- Deprives merchants whose businesses have collapsed of about 700 deputies' clientele, with that of their families and servants.
- Announces monarchy.
Then the Assembly decrees measures
that affect Parisians directly
- "Clearly showing its hostility to Paris,the Assembly decrees the payment of debts and rents, suspended during the siege"
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"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 ruling affects merchants as well, many of whom are on the verge of bankruptcy.
- "As if that were not enough, it ends pay 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!"
- It ends 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, who was an editor
* Le Père Duchesne, which took its name from a notorious newspaper of the Revolution
It and five other papers are immediately forbidden, which gives those that were less known notoriety.
Posters maintain communication
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| Internet, no source named |
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