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Genderquake: socialist women and the Paris Commune
Women in our history
Monday 8 March 2021, by Judy Cox
On 11 April 1871, three weeks into the life of the Paris Commune, a poster appeared on the walls of France’s capital:
Citizenesses, we know that the present social order bears within itself the seeds of poverty and of the death of all liberty and justice… At this hour, when danger is imminent and the enemy is at the gates of Paris, the entire population must unite to defend the Commune, which stands for the annihilation of all privilege and all inequality.
All women who were prepared to die for the Commune were urged to attend a meeting at 8pm at the Salle Larched, Grand Café des Nations, 74 Rue de Temple. Laundresses, seamstresses, bookbinders and milliners attended and there they established a new organisation, the Union of Women. This Union was a part of the socialist First International, which had been established by Karl Marx and other socialist ....

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Stewed elephant and wayward balloons: The bloody story of Europe's last major siege


The story of Europe s last great siege, when Parisians swapped haute cuisine for stewed elephant
The siege of Paris, the brutal denouement to the Franco-Prussian war, ended 150 years ago
28 January 2021 • 9:56am
Anything edible was considered for consumption, including cats, dogs, and the zoo animals from the Jardin des Plantes
Credit: Getty
It was 150 years ago this week that Parisians could, at last, look forward to eating something other than cats, rats, dogs and camel rôti à l’anglaise. A ceasefire on January 28, 1871 ended the four-month siege – the last traditional, land-based siege of a major European capital. No longer would Parisian restaurants be serving stewed elephant trunk at 40 francs a pound. Having pushed Paris to the edge, and shelled quite a lot of it, the Prussians had won. The Franco-Prussian war was over.  ....

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