V. CRADLE OF UPHEAVAL

 5. MENU: Cradle of upheaval

PARIS IS CALLED "THE CITY OF LOVE," BUT ITS UPRISINGS TELL ANOTHER STORY 

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The painting made a generation after the city's last 19th-century insurrection comes from records of adversaries that viewed the rebels with grudging respect. 

Mainstream accounts mention them as little as possible. These pages address that gap.

In brief

• "Objective history sticks to the facts:" Which facts? 

• The people fooled: 1830

• 1848: fooled again

• Workers' first conscious revolt and modern Europe's first great massacre

• The historical museum and the insurrections

•  Fear, promoter of urban grandeur

• Remaking the city

• Gifts of the repression

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"Objective history sticks to the facts:" Which facts?