Sebastian Smee’s Paris in Ruins is an addictively good read, weaving as it does the lives of several important Impressionist painters into the traumatic and bloody events of 1870-71 in France: the ...
Solidarity with Commune veterans on the part of British working-class movements was usually more symbolic than ...
1. The 28th of May, 1871, marks the end of an episode that shook European society and the whole world—the Commune of Paris. Since then, humanity has been shaken by so much more telling blows and ...