February 2010

Needle Celebrate

Saturday February 13 half a score of club members took the TGV for Paris, and especially the needle Celebrate
Cett year I was not the trip but here are photos and comments that Christine sent me, I'll let you discover them .

"Some photos of our expedition to the Needle Day last Saturday 13.
the queue of visitors who had a ticket

a superb exhibition of old samplers, some dating back to 1783

objects and notions

a magnificent exhibition of costumes of the French comedy
Mary Stuart

of the Paris Opera Manon in Manon Lescaut

and the Opera de Marseille
Elvira in The Puritans

The championship of France speed knitting

A in the last train home: one hour stop in the countryside (leTGV before had hit a game!), everyone has passed the time as he could, sleeping, reading magazines ... start kit purchased in the lounge or out of the bottom of the bag ... difficult without drum ...

Otherwise, it was very cold in Paris, it even snowed in the afternoon.
lot of people but also many beautiful things "

Thank you Christine for this story, more photos on her blog and that of Tempus fugit among MTSA
Sylvie

conclusion of "History of the Commune of 1871" Globalization

20 000 men, women and children killed during the battle or after the resistance in Paris, in the province, at least 3,000 dead in the depots, docks, forts, prisons, New Caledonia, exile or diseases contracted during their captivity; 13 700 sentences which, for many, lasted 9 years 70 000 women, children, old people deprived of their natural support or thrown out of France, approximately 107,000 victims, that the balance of the vengeance of the upper middle class to two months of the Revolution of March 18.

Am I warped acts, hid the mistakes of the vanquished? I have falsified acts of victors? That the opponent gets up, but with evidence.

facts Lees pronounced, simply summarized in conclusion.

Who fought constantly, mostly alone, often in the street against the empire, against the 1870 war against the capitulation of 1871, otherwise the people?

Who created the revolutionary situation of 18 March, requested enforcement of Paris, precipitated explosion if the Assembly M. Thiers and rural? Thiers, Paris that he had shot in 1832, delivered in June 1848 to the fury of the bourgeoisie and the rue de Poitiers, maligned during the war, sold to the Rural Assembly, led March 18, attacked on April 2, bombed 6 weeks, vandalized, covered with 20,000 corpses, thrown thousands of councils of war, which he had scattered so many shreds both hemispheres. What

March 18 if the instinctive response of a people buffeted? Where is there evidence of conspiracy, cult of leaders? What other thoughts as: Long live the Republic! What other concern than to develop a township Republican Assembly against a royalist?

Is it true that Paris has named its Communal Assembly by a vote of the majority, the freer he never issued?

Is it true that Versailles Paris is attacked without provocation, without warning and that from the first meeting in Versailles has executed prisoners?

Is it true that attempts at conciliation are always coming from Paris or the province and Versailles and has always rejected?

Is it true that during two months of struggle and absolute domination, the Federals have respected the lives of all their prisoners of war, all their political enemies?

Is it true that from March 18 until the last day of the fight, the Federals had not touched the vast treasures in their power and they were content to pay a derisory?

Is it true that Versailles has shot 17 000 people, at least, most unrelated to the fight, including women and children, arrested at least 40 000 people, to avenge the walls on fire, death of 64 hostages, the Royalist resistance in an Assembly?

Is it true that thousands have been sentenced to death in prison, deportation, exile, without trial seriously by officers winners, including stops by the Governments of the most conservative of Europe have recognized the unfairness?

That men respond equity. They say which side is the criminal, the horrible massacres or mass murderers, Federated robbers or civilized Versailles. They say morality, intelligence policy of a governing class that may have caused and suppress an uprising of the sort as that of 18 March.

And so now I put myself in front of events that followed, I have no right to ask again:

Is it true that the vast majority of the Assembly of Bordeaux and wanted to restore a monarchy it has fallen after the Commune?

Is it true that the crash in Paris has allowed reactionary to perpetuate four years in office and fight another 4 years under the guise of MacMahon?

Oh yes they were right to keep their guns and their rifles those Parisians who remembered the June and December, and yes they were right to say that the ghosts of the old regimes were plotting a restoration, yes, they were right fight to the death with the advent of priests: yes they were right to fear that the conservative Republic which Thiers had their oppression anonymous tip as hard as the shackles of the past, yes they were right to fight to the last still pavement, as the reason last barricade of June, due to cast their last shot at heaven.

Where were their great men? Did they say. There was none. This is precisely the power of this revolution have been made by the average and not a few privileged brain.

What did it mean? been told yet. A reprimand issued by the republican people of France remains to resurrecting the past. It gave the workers aware of their strength, drew the line very clearly between them and the consuming class, discerning relations of classes in a that light that the history of the French Revolution is illuminated and resume in underpinning.

revolution of 18 March was also a call to duty sent the petty bourgeoisie. She said: "Wake up, take back your role as initiator, seized power with the worker and give both France on track. That meant that 18 March is why this movement is a revolution, which is why all workers in the world recognize and acclaim, which is why all aristocracies do believe that with fury.

It was probably a fight-edge where the people, compressed into a military struggle learned, could not deploy his ideas nor his legions as he did not lock up the awkwardness of the Revolution this episode gigantic, but what a powerful avant-garde for more than two months, held in abeyance all coalition forces governing classes, what immortal soldiers who, at the forefront fatal, responding to a Versailles:

"We are here to Humanity! "

Lissagaray Olivier, witness, historian, barricaders, librarian, outlaw journalist and the Paris Commune of 1871.

"The last days of May barricade writes Lissagaray is Ramponneau street. For a quarter of an hour, a single federated defends. Three times he broke the flagpole Versailles. Price for his courage the last soldier of the Commune was able to escape. "

Legend has it that last anonymous soldier was none other than Lissagaray itself: for it is true that in him the modesty of the historian is always associated with the tenacity and the intransigence of the militant.