Gustave Courbet is one of the leaders of the Commune. He instigates the
demolition of Napoleon's statue in the Place de Vendome because it is a
symbol of militarism and imperialism. He writes I get up, I eat
breakfast, I sit down and preside for 12 hours a day, my head begins to
feel like a baked apple. But despite all this unaccustomed turmoil of
the head and brain, I’m in a state of enchantment. Paris est un vrai paradis.
The poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud are also involved. In the
last days of the Commune, Edward Manet draws heartbreaking pictures of
the Communards slaughtered at the barricades by the French Army
http://marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/index.htm
May 16th 1871 /// to demolish the Vendôme Column
http://marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/index.htm
May 16th 1871 /// to demolish the Vendôme Column
Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism
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