MEMORIES OF INSURRECTION

  

CANNONS DEPOSITED ON THIS HEIGHT* LED TO LA COMMUNE, THE LAST AND MOST TRAGIC OF THE 19TH-CENTURY INSURRECTIONS

*And that of neighboring Montmartre 

Meetings like this took place... 

Musée Carnavalet, not exhibited

In this church...

Notre-Dame de la Croix, Ménilmontant / zoom

It is on rue de Ménilmontant, site of ferocious combats...

Who were those men from la Creuse who fought and fell during the Commune of 1871?

"La Montagne," 2021

Now facing the street and the church is this Kurdish restaurant...

   Chez les Deux Amis Gourmet

110 rue de Ménilmontant

And behind the church and steps from the street, this progressive bookstore...

Le Monte-en-l'Air

3 rue de la Mare

...where conversations continue after books have been presented:  

For a discussion there of recent works on La Commune,

 please click and scroll down.

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La Commune is in its DNA:

We will come to it.

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Next,

The area stays left