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The Communards methodically destroyed national heritage treasures

2021-03-26T19:05:09.445Z


TRIBUNE - The commemoration of the 150 years of the Commune turns into hagiography. It obscures, in particular, the iconoclasm and nihilism of some of the insurgents, who voluntarily and consciously caused irreparable damage to the heritage and memory of the country, tells the ...


Specialist in architecture, Alexandre Gady is the author of numerous remarkable works, in particular he published

Le Louvre et les Tuileries.

The making of a masterpiece

(Paris, Musée du Louvre / Le Passage, 2015), Prix François-Victor Noury ​​from the Institut de France.

His last published book is

Le Val-de-Grâce

, co

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written with Claude Mignot (Éd. De l'Esplanade, 2019).

The 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune is currently causing controversy.

By transforming the long-awaited and legitimate commemoration into a militant celebration, the French left pretends to be astonished: but how could it be otherwise?

A civil war, thousands of deaths, a capital in flames, all under the amused eye of the Prussians who had just crushed France… the Commune is not, cannot be, a “cold” object: at the same as the Terror, the wars of Vendée, the Vichy regime and colonization, it questions our relationship to the past, the lessons that we draw from it - or not - to establish a philosophy

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Source: lefigaro

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