Posts Tagged ‘Communardes’

  1. Citoyennes: women of the Paris Commune

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    May 5, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    The mythical figure of the pétroleuse, hideous or heroic depending on your point of view, has now almost been forgotten. For …
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  2. Find out more about about the history behind Liberty’s Fire

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    March 2, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    ‘What is the Commune, that sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois mind?’ (Marx:The Civil War in France) Simply put, the …
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