V. CRADLE OF INNSURRECTION

 5. MENU: CRADLE OF INNSURRECTION 

DREAD OF INSURRECTION BECOMES THE OTHER REASON FOR THE CITY'S BEAUTY WHEN AN AUTHORITARIAN REGIME EXTENDS THE ROYAL LEGACY TO FACILITATE REPRESSION

The "City of Love" is a commercial invention. The "City of Insurrection," which inspired the whole Continent, is skipped.

These pages address that gap.

  Ad on the Louvre

    Zoom / musée Carnavalet  

  Barricade in Ménilmontant when La Commune broke out 

In brief

• History's tangible base

• 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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History's tangible base