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Caught on a Paris BARRICADE in 1871? #history

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Paris, May 1871: France's own army takes the city back from the Commune, one barricade at a time. How far would you get? Sources - The Bloody Week, 21-28 May 1871: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaine_sanglante ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaine_sanglante - The death toll: R. Tombs, "How Bloody was la Semaine sanglante of 1871? A Revision", Historical Journal 55:3 (2012): https://resolve.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/how-bloody-was-la-semaine-sanglante-of-1871-a-revision/4310E413FFE58830F41F00E9086807F7 ; the H-France Salon replies: https://www.h-france.net/Salon/Salonvol3no2.pdf - The Paris Commune: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune ; the Communards sent to New Caledonia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communards - The open gate: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Ducatel - Hands checked for gunpowder: Illustrated London News, 17 June 1871: https://www.maryevans.com/history/communard-suspects-10204257 - Galliffet and the column of prisoners: Daily News, 8 June 1871: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/news.htm ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston,_Marquis_de_Galliffet - Thiers's dispatch to the prefects: https://www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/documents/thiers-victory.htm - The guillotine in Paris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Tribunal - Thiers's house, knocked down by the Commune and rebuilt with state money: https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/PA75090009 ; http://autourduperetanguy.blogspirit.com/archive/2011/05/05/demolition-de-l-hotel-thiers-place-saint-georges.html Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): "Hidden Agenda", "Deliberate Thought", "Local Forecast - Elevator". Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl) and Freesound contributors (CC0).

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