We are on the last day of the bloody Week that put a definitive end to the Paris Commune. The versaillais massacred the last of the communards defending the ultimate paris barricades. In the late morning, one of the Fontaine-au-Roy falls. Some communards manage to escape, including Eugène Varlin, 31 years. It is a militant socialist and libertarian, a member of the First International. Worker bookbinder, it was already noted to have triggered strikes. It was he who had written : “As a man may starve at the door of a palace where everything is full…
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