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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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the Montmartre been armed, or had our rulers succeeded in disarming them, the army deceived or accomplice, and the Prussians, occupying the forts, would have protected the entrance into Paris of Napoleon IV, or of some king in the person of a prince of the Orleans family. On March 18, however, the French army, which three months later was to crush Paris, declined to help the men who wished to betray the nation and the Republic. The troops understood that the people of Paris were really protecting the Republic by protecting his guns, which a Royalist or Imperial government would, with the assent of the Emperor William or Bismarck, have turned against the heroic city. March 18 was to witness the victory of the foreigners, allies of the future king or (emperor, or that of the; people. It witnessed the latter. The army fraternized with the people instead of shooting them down. That triumph of the popular cause is perhaps chiefly due to the intervention of the women, who covered the artillery with their
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LOUISE MICHEL IN NEW CALEDONIA. own bodies, and even placed themselves at the muzzles of the guns, to prevent the latter being fired. When victory had thus been decided in our favor, I looked around and noticed my poor mother, who, thinking we were going to be shot down, had followed me; as she always kept behind me, doubtless in order not to cause me any anxiety. I had not noticed her before. It is not for lue to try in these few pages to tell the 164 THE REyiElV OF REVIEWS. story of the Commune. To sober Englishmen it was from first to last a mere lunacy, the product of nervous excitement; the most convincing proof afforded by this generation that commimities, like individuals, occasionally go mad. It is easier to condemn it from the point of view of calm reason than it is to understand it from the point of view of a sympathetic heart. Have we not dreamed for years of the arrival of the Republic as the harbinger of the millennium, only to wake up and discover amid the horrors of war the sti

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