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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                                                                                           Zoom / musée Carnavalet, not exhibited 

Barricade, Chaussée Ménilmontant, March 18, 1871, when La Commune broke out

Mainstream accounts avoid them.

These pages address that gap.

In brief

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

• 1830: the people fooled

• 1848: fooled again

• The first mass working-class insurrection brings modern Europe's first mass massacre

• The historical museum and the insurrections

• Fear, unlikely promoter of urban grandeur

• Remaking the city

• Gifts of the repression

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5.1.

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