We the Commune - 18 March 1871 – 28 May 1871
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We the Commune - 18 March 1871 – 28 May 1871

We the Commune - 18 March 1871 – 28 May 1871

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The Commune of 1871 is presented here through its fighters, women and men, with their stories told in detail. A visual investigation — entertaining, rigorous, and accessible to all — into a founding moment of political modernity.

On 18 March 1871, the people of Paris refused the government's decision to capitulate to Prussia, then at war with France. A humiliated Paris emerged from a siege of several months. An insurrection then brought to power a coalition of revolutionaries who proclaimed their own government: the Commune.

 

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The Commune is above all those who carried it on their shoulders or at the barrel of a rifle, whether driven by a thirst for social justice or by a patriotic sentiment — workers, artisans and intellectuals, women and men, young and old. Known or unknown. Who are they, what are they like?

This work brings these forgotten heroes back to life, restores a face to them (or lends them one in its absence), and illustrates their history — plural and collective. A genuine visual investigation, it allows the pen of Hugo Rousselle and the brush of Dugudus to portray this revolution through fifty figures of insurgents.

An elegant work, carefully designed, on offset paper. Glossary, Bibliography, Chronology…

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