Jean-Loup Bonnamy: "The Commune, first of all a patriotic revolt"

Jean-Loup Bonnamy is co-author, with Renaud Girard, of

When psychosis derails the world

, Tracts, Gallimard, 2020.

From March 18 to May 28, 1871, France was cut in two: Paris revolt (the Commune), which commanded nothing but itself, and the republican government, led by Adolphe Thiers, installed in Versailles and resulting from a National Assembly elected by universal male suffrage in February 1871. Finally, the troops commanded by Mac-Mahon reconquered Paris and crushed the Commune during the Bloody Week (May 21-28), one hundred and fifty years ago to the day. .

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We do not propose here to expose the many causes and the multiple aspects of this tragedy, but to insist on a dimension often obscured or undermined today by those very who present themselves as the sympathizers of the Communards: the Municipality. was first a patriotic revolt against the defeat against the Germans.

From July 1870 (declaration of war from France to Prussia)

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