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The Franco-Prussian war
which began in July 1870

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causes the fall
of Napoleon lll's Empire.

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A Government of National Defence,

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mostly made up
of moderate Republicans,

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seizes power in an attempt
to pursue the war.

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It ends in failure.

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The Government signs an armistice,

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against the will of the Parisians.

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The Germans challenge
its legitimacy

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and demand a new one be elected
to sign a peace treaty.

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The elections of February 1871

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bring back to power
a strong majority of monarchists.

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The Parisians
express their discontent openly

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" in what are called the "Red Clubs"."

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From September 1870,
District Committees

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shape their claims
into a counter-power

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which throws Paris
into a pre-revolutionary climate.

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My name is Gerard Watkins

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and I play a TV journalist

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in this film which deals not only
with the Paris Commune,

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but also with the role
of the mass media

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in past and present society.

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My name is Aurelia Petit

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and I play Blanche Capellier,
journalist for the Commune TV.

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First, what was quite difficult
was that

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she's a credulous person,
a naive optimist,

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and knowing the end of this story

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and the events of the Commune,
it wasn't easy to keep smiling.

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Secondly, she likes her work
in front of the camera so much

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that she forgets to denounce
and question

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the power of the media,
which she represents entirely.

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These premises are currently
occupied by Armand Gatti

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" and his troupe "La Parole Errante"."

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In April of this year,
Peter Watkins and 13 Production

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started to construct a film set,

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recreating the atmosphere
of the 11 th District

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during the Paris Commune.

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We would now like to present

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our work-place during
these past three weeks.

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Yesterday we finished the shooting

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and the set is exactly as we left it

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after the last scene.

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The following text will be added
a few months later.

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<i>Above the barricade,</i>

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<i>flies the tricolour</i>
of the Government,

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<i>replacing the Commune's red flag,</i>
which hung there earlier.

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<i>On the left</i>
is what remains of the Town Hall,

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<i>where the revolutionary</i>
Sub-Committee,

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<i>enjoyed absolute power,</i>
until yesterday.

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<i>Outside,</i>

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<i>a Government army officer</i>
sat at this table

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<i>with pen and ink,</i>

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<i>sentencing hundreds of</i>
neighbourhood Communards

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<i>to instant death</i>

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<i>by firing squad.</i>

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<i>Beyond this table</i>
is the local courtyard

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<i>with its flies and cesspool,</i>

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<i>and the cafe</i>

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<i>where we filmed discussions</i>
with the actors

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<i>about revolution and</i>
contemporary society.

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<i>Behind it, the Mont-de-piete,</i>

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<i>a Government pawnshop,</i>

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<i>which kept the working class</i>
in permanent debt.

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<i>Precious goods:</i>

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<i>mattresses, sheets, shoes,</i>

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<i>kitchen utensils,</i>

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<i>sold if the families</i>
could not buy them back.

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<i>A cannon bought with</i>
the community's meagre resources

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<i>stands abandoned.</i>

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<i>Yesterday evening,</i>

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<i>this open space</i>
was littered with corpses.

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<i>An execution squad fired</i>
and reloaded without ceasing.

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<i>Among the people killed,</i>

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<i>were workers repairing rifles,</i>

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<i>women from a workshop,</i>

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<i>children aged 13 and 14</i>

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<i>who fought on the barricades,</i>

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<i>and the local baker and his wife.</i>

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<i>We ask you to imagine that it is now</i>

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<i>March 1 7, 1 871.</i>

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I'm grandfather Thibaudier.

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<i>There are 5 of us</i>

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living in a small room

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in the 11 th District of Paris.

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The 11 th
is a very poor neighbourhood...

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not an easy place to live.

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Many kids

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sleep out in the streets.

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So our family is not among

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the most miserable in this society.

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But we have to change it one day.

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My name is Henri Dubrieux.

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I live in this courtyard,
as you can see.

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I came to Paris from Franche-Comte

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24 years ago,
during the economic crisis.

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I lived through 1848,

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and what's going on now
reminds me of that period.

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However, the circumstances
aren't the same.

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We've been defeated and humiliated
by the Prussians

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who proclaimed their Empire
in Versailles last January 18.

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On what's happening in Paris
- it's a shame that

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the newly elected National Assembly,
representing the Provinces,

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has passed a number of ridiculous
decrees and laws,

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like paying the rents.

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We've just lived through a siege
and very difficult circumstances,

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it's no surprise
that everyone is broke.

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They could have waited
and been more diplomatic.

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I'm afraid it will all get worse.

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We don't know where we're heading.

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For work, I do odd jobs, but mainly
I'm a public letter-writer.

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I teach people,
like little Marcel here.

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He's my neighbours' son,
very nice people.

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He reproaches me for being strict

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when I ask him to read,
write and count.

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But that's what it takes to become
a free man.

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I'm still a bit worried
that things might get worse.

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if things go bad on either side,

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the one to laugh

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will be that bastard Bismarck.

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The peace plan strips France
of Alsace-Lorraine,

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imposes
<i>5 billion fr. Compensation and,</i>

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supreme humiliation, allows
the German army to enter Paris.

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<i>From 5:00 a.m.,</i>

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mothers are here with children
crying in their arms.

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It's sad, people had nothing to eat
during the siege,

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they ate rats, roots,

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what they went through was awful.

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And now, the children are sick,

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we hear things at the bakery,

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young children starving because
the bread is of poor quality.

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During the 6 month Prussian siege,

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the Parisians were cold and hungry.

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The mortality rate doubled.

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The jobless join the National Guard
for 30p. A day.

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For 30p., in January 1871,
one can buy

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a lettuce or a dog's brain.

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Yes, for the bread,
we do what we can,

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we are starting to get flour
but it's not good quality.

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So in order to make a lot
we have to mix the flour.

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We add buckwheat, rye,

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we add bran to try and make bread

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because people are hungry,

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and we have to make a lot.

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People want bread.

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It's almost the only food
you can find today.

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I can't stand seeing
people so miserable any longer.

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These people crying, mothers crying.

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It can't continue,

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the people are suffering too much,
they've had enough.

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Nearly 300,000 strong, mostly
opponents to the new Assembly,

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the National Guard is a Federation
of elected delegates.

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lts aim: to defend the Republic

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against a Prussian invasion
or a monarchist Restoration.

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'89 was a bourgeois revolution.
Nothing changed for us.

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Same for Haussmann's building works
in the fancy areas.

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Sure, we pass by shop windows
with splendid suits

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and hams hanging from the ceiling.
But for who?

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Three working lives
couldn't buy that stuff.

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We're as poor as ever.

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I don't want my kids
to live like that.

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So I want to do something,
I don't know what.

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But being in the National Guard
seems a good start.

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Only 10% of Paris flats
have drainage,

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70,000 cesspools require
sewage workers labouring at night.

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Candle is the only source of light
for 80% of Parisians.

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My name is Constance Fillon,

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I live here
with my daughter Frederique.

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The courtyard is like
a family for her.

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<i>I've been a widow for 5 years...</i>

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and she's found her place

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at the orphanage on Rue Oberkampf.

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We were lucky to have
the sisters of St-Vincent de Paul.

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I'm a midwife.
I couldn't take care of her.

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Things are stirring in Paris now.

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We elected the mayor - Mottu -

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he's talking of organizing
state schools.

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We need schools, we need education,

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we can't have kids on the streets.

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The nuns are here,
they were here during the siege,

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they give us soup,
medical attention.

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You like it with them?

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Yes, the sisters are very kind.

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I'm afraid they'll shut the school.

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My name is Francoise Boidard.

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I'm a primary school teacher...

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unemployed.

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Unemployed voluntarily.

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I refused to work.

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I refused to swear allegiance

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to an education I loathe.

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An education based on religion,

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which makes children
withdraw into themselves...

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and submit to authority.

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"The Black Army moves in fury,
peddling night and darkness."

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"Each year state schools shut down
by the hundreds,"

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"and more religious schools
open in their place."

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"The plan for universal
cretinisation is alive."

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Blanqui, 1870

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My name is Marie-Louise Beauger.

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I'm a primary school teacher too.

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I worked under Napoleon lll,

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but I resigned because I had enough.

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We had to make the young girls
say prayers,

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teach them sewing,

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useless things,

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bring them up like their mothers,

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to be dressmakers,
washerwomen, no more.

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So I resigned.

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My friend and I regularly read

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a review published by
the Society for New Education

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and we firmly believe
in what they say.

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We want things to change.

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These are very troubled times,
everyone suffers enormously.

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But we put our hope in the future.

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We want all girls
to learn to read and write,

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to get a real profession.

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We want to change all that.

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The National Guard,
a militia with elected officers,

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is devoted to its democratic system.

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A Central Committee,
rejecting all government authority,

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<i>is elected on March 15.</i>

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More than just a military force,

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it becomes a political power
serving a revolutionary ideal.

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Soldiers!

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Enlisted men
of the 66th and 140th Battalions!

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I saw you assembling.

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It's like a bordello...

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Silence!
Listen to your captain!

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You're in the National Guard.
At least show some respect!

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Hold your noise!

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- Obedience, discipline!
- Shut up!

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This morning,
some of you came late again.

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- Shut up!
- You stop barking!

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You're not at home.
You're in the National Guard.

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- We know that!
- Stop this mess!

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How much have you had?

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I demand respect!

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Silence!

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We're not dogs!
if you'd talk nice...

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The sergeant's always drunk!

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Now, we're going to listen
to Captain Lemmonier,

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with respect!

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- Be quiet!
- He said silence in the ranks!

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Citizens!

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- Citizens!
- Go on, captain!

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Our National Guard has now become
a Federation

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to face a Government

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that has betrayed our aspirations.

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We must unite against tyranny
and human exploitation.

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Death to them!

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Long live universal brotherhood
and solidarity!

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They say that the government

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wants to take the cannon
we paid for.

254
00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,988
Never! Let them come,
we'll be waiting!

255
00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:23,752
Thiers' government has already
passed many unacceptable measures

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against the Paris population

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which has courageously endured
a long siege.

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Regardless,

259
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they reinstalled the payment
of rents and commercial debts.

260
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We won't pay a penny!

261
00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:46,754
They also decreed
that the items left at the pawnshops

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would be sold to the profiteers!

263
00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:54,395
- They also banned our newspapers.
- We want Thiers dead!

264
00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:56,830
- It's intolerable!
- Kill him!

265
00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,188
They are violating our rights.

266
00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:01,790
Be brave, be courageous,

267
00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:04,997
and be vigilant,
don't let them corrupt you!

268
00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,919
Many merchants and craftsmen
are in debt.

269
00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,932
Rents and commercial commitments
had been suspended.

270
00:19:16,982 --> 00:19:20,952
But the new Assembly cancels this,
causing 40000 bankruptcies

271
00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:25,153
" and distress to the working class
and "petite bourgeoisie"."

272
00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:34,118
My name is Mme Theron.

273
00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:37,118
My name is Emile Theron.

274
00:19:37,639 --> 00:19:39,789
We have a little jewellery shop.

275
00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:43,635
It's hard now because of
the government's new decrees.

276
00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:48,153
We must pay our rents and debts
and we have little in reserve

277
00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:52,513
so it will be very difficult for us
over the next few weeks.

278
00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,231
Look at this new government,

279
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all the monarchists elected,

280
00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:03,355
it's quite frightening.

281
00:20:04,639 --> 00:20:07,711
And things have gotten worse
since the siege.

282
00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,070
For everyone around here,

283
00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:15,119
there's more and more poverty.
Really!

284
00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,895
I'm very scared because
since the start of these events,

285
00:20:20,945 --> 00:20:25,072
a lot of National Guard Battalions
have been formed.

286
00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,037
There's a lot of unrest

287
00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,390
and that scares me a lot.

288
00:20:34,639 --> 00:20:36,914
Yes, we sense some catastrophe,

289
00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,395
a civil war or something terrible.

290
00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,251
Because people
have nothing left to lose.

291
00:20:44,301 --> 00:20:47,437
Many of them
really have nothing to lose.

292
00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:51,913
This is true. And I'm not going
to fight against French people

293
00:20:52,639 --> 00:20:54,152
because I'm French.

294
00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:56,632
I won't join the Guard,

295
00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,509
but we might have trouble
with the others

296
00:21:00,559 --> 00:21:02,112
from this area later on.

297
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:06,074
We'll see about that,
but he certainly won't fight.

298
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:11,352
He won't go fight in
the National Guard. I'll stop him.

299
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:17,073
Fearing the Parisians,

300
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,472
the new National Assembly
moves to Versailles,

301
00:21:20,522 --> 00:21:21,917
19 km from the capital.

302
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,754
Adolphe Thiers, Chief Executive,

303
00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,958
stays in Paris with his Government.

304
00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,830
On March 18, Thiers sends
units of the regular army

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00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,508
to seize cannon held by the Guard.

306
00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,638
He fears the weapons will be used
against the Government.

307
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,799
There are a lot of you in Paris
this morning,

308
00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,355
what's going on?

309
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,950
The National Guard seized
more than 300 cannon

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00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,436
when the Prussians entered Paris.

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00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,237
They are stored in Belleville,
Montmartre

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and other places in the capital.

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00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,719
These cannon symbolize
the dissident National Guard's

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00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,076
independent military power.

315
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,430
Negotiations to recover the cannon
having failed,

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00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,516
Mr Thiers' government

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00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,155
has decided to recover them.

318
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:33,592
What are you up to this morning?

319
00:22:33,642 --> 00:22:35,710
We really don't know.

320
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:38,516
It's totally vague.

321
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,835
We're starving, that's all.

322
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,030
We don't have cigarettes.

323
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:46,996
And we're not allowed to talk.

324
00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:51,432
Taking the cannon is OK by me,
we need them to control Paris.

325
00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,028
But they want us
to fire on the people.

326
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,430
That I won't do!
I don't agree!

327
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:57,633
Me neither!

328
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,638
I think this operation
is a total mess -

329
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,833
if we're to recover
the National Guard cannon,

330
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,634
where are the horses we need?
We don't have any.

331
00:23:09,684 --> 00:23:12,711
The cannon weigh two tons.
Are we to carry them

332
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,277
on our backs?
The officers think we're animals?

333
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,389
We have orders
against men in arms grouping,

334
00:23:22,879 --> 00:23:26,394
to stop them from moving
into the city's popular areas,

335
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,489
where we are going

336
00:23:29,539 --> 00:23:31,311
to recover the cannon.

337
00:23:31,879 --> 00:23:34,313
if we must fight, we will fight.

338
00:23:34,879 --> 00:23:38,030
if we do, there will be no mercy.

339
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,272
I fear that some of our soldiers

340
00:23:43,879 --> 00:23:47,394
may refuse to fight Parisians.

341
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,036
Most of them are young recruits

342
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,711
who don't grasp the need
for vigorous action

343
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:55,877
against the red elements.

344
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,396
I'm Marie-Louise Thibaudier.

345
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:16,910
I have 2 kids, Jacques and Celine.

346
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,708
My husband
empties cesspools at night.

347
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,910
I do extra work
for a big Paris department store

348
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,235
to supplement my pay.

349
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:31,319
I work as a dressmaker
during the day.

350
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,354
I live here with my 2 children,
my husband,

351
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,430
and Jules.
He doesn't get any pension,

352
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,795
but he always gets something to eat.

353
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,429
Here in the 11 th District

354
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,634
there aren't many families
like ours.

355
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,598
So many unemployed.

356
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,957
I still feel privileged.

357
00:24:55,639 --> 00:24:58,072
Many women are looking for work.

358
00:24:58,122 --> 00:25:00,076
They come every day to the shop

359
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,910
and it breaks my heart
not to be able to help them.

360
00:25:04,639 --> 00:25:07,072
Then again I can't go without work.

361
00:25:07,122 --> 00:25:09,031
if I gave them what I do...

362
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:15,639
Mother, come see.

363
00:25:16,639 --> 00:25:18,152
What's going on?

364
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,390
Please tell me what's going on!

365
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:21,878
- Stay inside!
- No, tell me!

366
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,076
Stay home lady, it's nothing!

367
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,510
What? Don't close the shutters!

368
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,312
It must be the cannon,
let's go see.

369
00:25:29,362 --> 00:25:30,753
What's going on?

370
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,838
Come on, it's the cannon.
Take your jacket.

371
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,838
Celine, put your shoes on.
Come with us!

372
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:39,389
Are you coming?

373
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,874
The damned door won't open!

374
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:47,871
Nothing functions here!

375
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,074
The scenes in the 11 th District

376
00:25:51,124 --> 00:25:52,911
were filmed in 13 days,

377
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,438
" mostly using long,
10-min."sequence shots","

378
00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,075
and chronologically following
the Commune events.

379
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:02,995
Look at all those people!

380
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,931
- Calm down!
- We've got to see what's going on.

381
00:26:06,981 --> 00:26:08,558
Go home!

382
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,915
They want to take our cannon!

383
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,151
The cannon are ours!

384
00:26:57,920 --> 00:26:59,911
It's ours. We bought it!

385
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,038
We paid for it!

386
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,717
- Disperse!
- No!

387
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:18,032
First warning. We will use force.
Disperse!

388
00:27:28,879 --> 00:27:30,693
Second and last warning.

389
00:27:30,743 --> 00:27:33,672
We will use force.
Disperse!

390
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,753
Long live Socialism!

391
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,477
Long live the Republic!

392
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:07,393
Fraternization with the army,
led by the women of Montmartre,

393
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,479
foils an attempt to seize
the National Guard cannon.

394
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,712
lnsurrection spreads spontaneously

395
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,518
throughout the working class areas
of Paris.

396
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,951
By 9:00 a.m.,
government authority has vanished.

397
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,871
Two generals are captured,
an officer is killed by the crowd.

398
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,998
His horse is hacked to pieces
on the spot.

399
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,239
National TV Versailles.
News flash.

400
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,872
According to information
just received,

401
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,878
serious unrest has broken out
in the capital

402
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,791
since the army's attempt

403
00:28:57,841 --> 00:29:01,236
to recover cannon
held illegally by the Guard.

404
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,232
Two of our generals,
Lecomte and Clement Thomas

405
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,795
have been arrested by the crowd.

406
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,117
Their lives could be at stake.
I repeat...

407
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:20,956
Well, hello,
live from the 11 th District,

408
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,550
your reporter
for National Television Versailles,

409
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,593
to brief you on the incredible
events in Paris this morning.

410
00:29:28,879 --> 00:29:31,393
lndeed, several movements of...

411
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,598
I'm from Versailles TV and we'd like
to know what's happening...

412
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,372
Tell jackass Thiers to come back
to the 11 th and we'll see!

413
00:29:43,422 --> 00:29:47,193
You can see the strange atmosphere
here in Paris.

414
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,198
You liar, back to Versailles!

415
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,669
It's very difficult to get answers.

416
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,919
Can you tell us
what you think of this?

417
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,158
The situation
is quite disconcerting...

418
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:00,833
in my opinion.

419
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:02,838
And who are you?

420
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,318
My name is Wickham Hoffman,

421
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,075
I'm assistant to US Ambassador

422
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:10,972
Washburne.

423
00:30:11,022 --> 00:30:14,839
And what does the US think
of the events in Paris?

424
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,672
Personally,
I find the situation very serious.

425
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,989
With this insurrectionary crowd
in the streets,

426
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,750
I'm quite worried.

427
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,069
For the property owners in Paris,

428
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,674
- it's very disturbing!
- Thank you.

429
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:36,693
What do you think of the events
unfolding in Paris?

430
00:30:36,743 --> 00:30:40,871
I'm extremely anxious
and very worried.

431
00:30:40,921 --> 00:30:43,872
My husband is a doctor.
What will happen to us?

432
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,153
I'm really very worried.

433
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,074
Do you think this riot could worsen?

434
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,630
Might it lead to civil war?

435
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,519
- I'm afraid so.
- You fear that?

436
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,516
- And you Madame?
- I'm shattered!

437
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,454
War was over, we had peace,
and now this!

438
00:31:01,504 --> 00:31:03,748
I can't understand it.
I really can't.

439
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,314
- Will you stay here?
- I must, I have workers,

440
00:31:07,364 --> 00:31:09,999
I must protect my business.

441
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,396
- And you?
- I'm frightened.

442
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,274
It's like civil war,
it smells of trouble.

443
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,194
I'm very worried for all of us.

444
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,910
I refuse to panic.
We've nothing to fear.

445
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,838
Who are these men?
Ex-convicts, drunkards!

446
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,314
Our army will come
and sort this out.

447
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,392
The women saved the cannon.

448
00:31:31,442 --> 00:31:33,999
Things are stirring
in the 11 th in Paris.

449
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,192
- Too much misery!
- Leave it. They don't care!

450
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,589
There's too much misery.

451
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,192
- It can't go on.
- No more privileges!

452
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,795
As you can see
the atmosphere is hard to describe.

453
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,598
It seems that strong discontent
prevails in the capital.

454
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,599
It's hard to grasp
what's going on here.

455
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,838
It's a bourgeois TV,
sold out to power!

456
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,998
We've had enough.
We have journalists.

457
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,514
We must be able
to set up a Commune TV.

458
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,156
Yeah, but you also need equipment!

459
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,573
We can't, we don't have any!

460
00:32:14,623 --> 00:32:18,473
That's why we must do it together,
in a different way!

461
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,070
- That would be great.
- We have to stop censorship.

462
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,629
We need a TV for us, for the people!

463
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:32,159
You have to contact the
National Guard Central Committee,

464
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,392
in charge of the people, of us.

465
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,054
See what happened today,
why it worked?

466
00:32:44,104 --> 00:32:46,155
- It was great.
- So many of us!

467
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:48,830
The women spontaneously

468
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,070
- defended the cannon.
- Up front with the kids.

469
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,192
- I was fuming against the runt.
- We did it!

470
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,748
That means
they'll stop at nothing...

471
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,511
We should stay together.

472
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,952
- They'll be back.
- We must take the Town Hall.

473
00:33:05,002 --> 00:33:07,348
- They'll be back!
- It's not over.

474
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,671
- Defend the Republic!
- Fight on.

475
00:33:09,721 --> 00:33:12,135
The Royalists want to return.

476
00:33:12,185 --> 00:33:14,275
They want to nick our Republic.

477
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,551
I understand them, but it's mad.

478
00:33:17,601 --> 00:33:19,710
Now that they've defended

479
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,269
subscriptions to the cannon,

480
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:26,114
they can defend contributions
to parish costs.

481
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,189
<i>According to information</i>
just received,

482
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,513
<i>serious unrest has broken out</i>
in the capital

483
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,557
<i>since the army's attempt</i>

484
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,755
<i>to recover cannon</i>
held illegally by the Guard.

485
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:44,918
<i>Two of our generals...</i>

486
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,514
What's that?
They must be joking!

487
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,478
That's not true,
it's a bunch of lies!

488
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,274
- Liars! It's not true!
- I want to know

489
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,035
how they take cannon without horses.

490
00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:00,154
The Parisians paid for the cannon.

491
00:34:00,204 --> 00:34:03,436
Is it possible to recover cannon,
without horses?

492
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,992
It's just lies. Their two soldiers?
There's nothing to fear.

493
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,119
The cannon are better here
than there.

494
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,833
Popincourt Street,
at one of the Paris barricades.

495
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,635
Tell the people in Versailles.
We're going to fight.

496
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,311
We're not afraid to die.

497
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,553
We found microphones,
if they work you'll hear us.

498
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:42,770
We'll interview people
to explain the situation.

499
00:34:42,820 --> 00:34:44,749
Hello. Who are you?

500
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,675
Charles Capellaro,
of the Basfroi St. Sub-Committee.

501
00:34:48,679 --> 00:34:50,317
What's going on here?

502
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:54,359
We're taking the Town Hall,
to run things in this area.

503
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,474
- Who are you?
- F. David, Sub-Committee.

504
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,711
lnto the Town Hall.

505
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:07,718
Two guards here!

506
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:19,393
11 th District Battalion Delegates
from the Basfroi Sub-Committee.

507
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,512
In the Town Hall,
a Municipal Delegation

508
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,638
is formed to run the local
National Guard and the District.

509
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,152
What's going on here?

510
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,840
A new team is moving in.
Next door.

511
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,953
- When did you arrive?
- In September.

512
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,636
Hello, gentlemen.
We'd like to know what's going on.

513
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,030
What are you doing now?

514
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,712
Today, the people
of the 11 th District

515
00:35:48,762 --> 00:35:50,874
are back in the Town Hall

516
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,310
to run their affairs themselves.

517
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,472
To fight against
a Government of traitors!

518
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,152
Enough,
their confiscating the revolution!

519
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,198
The events of '48 are over!

520
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,872
This revolution includes

521
00:36:04,922 --> 00:36:07,035
all the National Guard.

522
00:36:07,159 --> 00:36:09,673
- Who are you?
- 11 th District citizens.

523
00:36:10,159 --> 00:36:12,992
Elected National Guard
Committee members!

524
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,035
Long live the social Republic!

525
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,152
Listen, citizens!

526
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,958
We will never yield

527
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,436
to attempts
to overthrow the Republic.

528
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,474
No more alienation,
no more Monarchy!

529
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,555
Only we and our common interest
are legal now!

530
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,955
Last night, the people's conviction
stopped fat Thiers.

531
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,472
Long live the Parisians
and the new Republic!

532
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,870
Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!

533
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:26,998
What do you think?

534
00:37:27,679 --> 00:37:31,831
I think that with today's
popular energy, we will go very far.

535
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,438
The people are angry.
They stopped the army,

536
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,072
this anger is legitimate!

537
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,953
It's exhilarating
that they fraternized,

538
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,273
a great hope for the future.
It's truly an exceptional day.

539
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:48,314
It's up to us to guarantee
the power of the people,

540
00:37:48,679 --> 00:37:51,068
to resist the old regime.

541
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:52,933
What about Thiers' actions?

542
00:37:52,983 --> 00:37:55,348
They got what they deserved.

543
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:59,236
Worse than stealing bread.
They stole their hope.

544
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,889
lmagine
wanting to fire on the people,

545
00:38:01,939 --> 00:38:04,553
on their own people.
We'd never do that.

546
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,559
The bodies of Generals Lecomte
and Thomas,

547
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,033
one of whom
was partly responsible

548
00:38:13,083 --> 00:38:15,673
for the bloody repression of 1848,

549
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,478
lie riddled with bullets.

550
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:22,918
An autopsy reveals that most shots
came from Government army rifles...

551
00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:32,391
National TV Versailles,
latest news update.

552
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:35,951
Good evening.

553
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,254
With great sorrow

554
00:38:38,304 --> 00:38:42,313
we report the disturbances
in Paris since yesterday.

555
00:38:43,639 --> 00:38:45,550
We have just been informed

556
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,474
that Generals Lecomte and Thomas

557
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,449
were savagely killed by the crowd

558
00:38:51,499 --> 00:38:55,752
during the recovery of the cannon
at Butte Montmartre.

559
00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:02,633
The National Guard Central Committee

560
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,918
moves into the Town Hall
and Ministries.

561
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:10,636
They seize the power left vacant
by the flight of the Government,

562
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,433
and take over
as city administrators.

563
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:17,230
They plan to elect a Paris Commune.

564
00:39:21,199 --> 00:39:22,996
Citizens, hello!

565
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,634
We're proud
to present our first programme.

566
00:39:26,684 --> 00:39:28,750
We'll call it Commune TV,

567
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,389
as we're hearing a lot
about the Commune.

568
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,756
We might have technical problems
since we lack equipment.

569
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,833
- Gerard Bourlet.
- Blanche Capellier.

570
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,310
" With us we have
the "Pere Duchene" reporter,"

571
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,192
- Joachim Riviere.
- Hello.

572
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,809
- So you're fictitious?
- Completely!

573
00:39:45,859 --> 00:39:49,475
I'm in this film as a witness
to the role of the press

574
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,116
in this revolutionary process.

575
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,755
" The "Pere Duchene" was banned?"

576
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,873
" Yes. General Vinoy banned
the "Pere Duchene" 10 days ago."

577
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,994
With the Central Committee
now in the Town Hall,

578
00:40:02,044 --> 00:40:03,831
we'll re-publish by tomorrow.

579
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:09,029
"Pere Duchene" was famous
during the revolution."

580
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,550
With a circulation of 60000,

581
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:15,332
" the 1871 version renews
the crude "bugger" formulas"

582
00:40:15,382 --> 00:40:18,630
inspired by its predecessor's
political repertoire.

583
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,392
" In the film
we often quote from "Pere Duchene"

584
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,516
" and "Cri du Peuple".
These are authentic."

585
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,713
We will begin our investigation.

586
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:35,077
lnterviews with people of the 11 th,

587
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:39,678
to find out what they need
now that social changes are coming.

588
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:41,872
- Hi.
- What do you need?

589
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:43,752
Rich or poor man's TV?

590
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,269
- We're from Commune TV.
- OK.

591
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,478
We won't ask the rich anything,
or make any claims,

592
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:54,189
because we have the weapons.
Nobody's taking them back.

593
00:40:54,679 --> 00:40:58,149
We're the people in arms,
we'll take, occupy,

594
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,114
we won't beg Thiers for reforms.
We don't want reforms!

595
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:06,070
Today's a revolution.
We've been sweating for so long.

596
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,435
With the weapons
we take what's ours.

597
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,038
OK, thanks a lot.

598
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,599
- What are you hoping for?
- I want work.

599
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,678
I was a cook in a bourgeois family,
but was fired.

600
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,874
I've got nothing left.
What I want is work.

601
00:41:19,924 --> 00:41:22,272
Washing, laundry, anything,

602
00:41:22,322 --> 00:41:24,157
I want to be able to work.

603
00:41:24,679 --> 00:41:25,634
And you?

604
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,470
Like everyone I'm hungry,
but that's not all!

605
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,029
It's important to say
we also hunger for knowledge.

606
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:37,198
We're fed up with education
and learning

607
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,353
as privileges for people who use it
to oppress us even more.

608
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,870
Equality means everyone
has the right to education.

609
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,914
A right to culture.
There's a bourgeois culture,

610
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,511
but we also have a sense of beauty
and thought.

611
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,758
We should be able
to criticize our world.

612
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,475
So we must learn,
that's most important.

613
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:00,629
Thank you very much.

614
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:06,131
Hello, what do you expect
from the recent changes?

615
00:42:06,181 --> 00:42:07,638
Well, we want schools

616
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:10,474
to educate our children.
We're tired of...

617
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,678
- We're unemployed.
- ... kids in the streets.

618
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:18,351
There are empty premises and
we want to put our children there.

619
00:42:18,679 --> 00:42:21,809
We want girls to learn to read,
write, get a real job.

620
00:42:21,859 --> 00:42:25,194
Too many street-kids!
Parents could bring them to us.

621
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,033
We must get organized.

622
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:29,508
I'll bring my child.

623
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:34,119
We also need parents
to help plan these new schools,

624
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:38,273
a compulsory state education,
free for all children.

625
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:40,630
- Thanks.
- What are you hoping for?

626
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:42,771
What I'm hoping for?

627
00:42:42,821 --> 00:42:46,592
For an end to slavery
and exploitation. We're fed up!

628
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:51,032
We're treated worse than animals,
it has to stop.

629
00:42:51,679 --> 00:42:54,809
Dignity for men and women,

630
00:42:54,859 --> 00:42:58,194
there's no space for women.
We need dignity.

631
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:00,670
There's no space for women.

632
00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:02,874
Women need to speak, a newspaper.

633
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:05,833
People aren't aware
of women's problems...

634
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:07,718
Whether it's work or speech...

635
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,872
We want a newspaper,
a rag, anything!

636
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,155
An uncensored press.

637
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,430
- No censorship.
- Children, work,

638
00:43:15,679 --> 00:43:17,510
that's what counts!

639
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:19,973
Your hopes with these changes?

640
00:43:20,023 --> 00:43:22,758
Work.
Everyone here is waiting for bread.

641
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:24,791
What we want is work.

642
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,919
Work is dignity, that's what counts!

643
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,670
We need to find long-term solutions,

644
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,111
we'll never slave again
like we used to...

645
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,438
Things have to change forever,
for our future!

646
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:43,308
Well said!

647
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:48,629
Hello.

648
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:50,508
What are you doing?

649
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,516
We're here to find some work,

650
00:43:54,679 --> 00:43:55,914
some people have jobs.

651
00:43:55,964 --> 00:43:57,791
But that doesn't mean
we're forgetting Versailles.

652
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,636
Because if we forget them,
they won't forget us!

653
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,632
We've come to see our mates,

654
00:44:03,679 --> 00:44:06,034
hoping to find a bit of work.

655
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:07,638
It can't go on like this.

656
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:09,154
What are your needs?

657
00:44:09,679 --> 00:44:14,036
I need money to run the workshop...

658
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,431
And to get money, I need work.

659
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,931
I hope the future authorities
will give me that.

660
00:44:22,981 --> 00:44:26,953
Because I didn't have my mates
come all the way from Picardy.

661
00:44:27,679 --> 00:44:29,556
for nothing!

662
00:44:31,159 --> 00:44:33,552
I have needs, but I want recognition

663
00:44:33,602 --> 00:44:35,835
for all the women in the area,

664
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:37,678
because it's thanks to us

665
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,749
that the regular army didn't shoot.

666
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:44,673
So please, the Central Committee
must acknowledge us,

667
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,713
so we can become members
of this new assembly.

668
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,155
We're the heart of this revolution!

669
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,510
- And you?
- You want to know?

670
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:54,990
- Just look at her.
- Elisabeth!

671
00:44:55,159 --> 00:44:57,912
That's what!
I never want to see her again!

672
00:44:58,159 --> 00:45:00,552
She exploited me for 20 years.

673
00:45:00,602 --> 00:45:02,994
- You can't quit!
- She dares to come...

674
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,992
while we queue for bread.
Just listen...

675
00:45:06,042 --> 00:45:07,678
You have a moral commitment.

676
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,035
I want out, I can't stand this!

677
00:45:10,159 --> 00:45:12,309
- I gave you everything.
- What?

678
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,472
A salary, a roof, everything.

679
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:19,075
I accommodated you and your family.

680
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,232
But I wiped her ass,
she forgot that.

681
00:45:22,282 --> 00:45:25,231
Even when she had her periods!

682
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,873
You'll fall back into prostitution
and drunkenness...

683
00:45:28,923 --> 00:45:31,991
I will pray
for the soul of your son...

684
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,079
You never did anything
for my son!

685
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:36,549
What do you want?

686
00:45:36,599 --> 00:45:38,516
I'm really fed up!
lndirectly,

687
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,235
I'm slaving for my husband's boss,

688
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,193
becoming my husband's slave,
who's had enough.

689
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,112
I must go to the Town Hall

690
00:45:46,159 --> 00:45:48,878
to get ration coupons,
this can't go on!

691
00:45:49,159 --> 00:45:52,233
Talking of work conditions,
it's time for change.

692
00:45:52,283 --> 00:45:55,834
We work night and day here
without getting paid.

693
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,110
- What's up?
- The pawnshop lady.

694
00:45:59,960 --> 00:46:02,758
- It's shut. I just left.
- But you know me!

695
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:04,774
Too late, come tomorrow.

696
00:46:04,824 --> 00:46:07,152
I have the money
for my sewing machine.

697
00:46:07,202 --> 00:46:09,036
What sewing machine?

698
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:14,156
- I worked 2 months for the money.
- The cart left for the auction.

699
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,190
" You know, the "fifth-quarter"."

700
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:18,673
I work 17 hours a day...

701
00:46:19,159 --> 00:46:21,694
What you do at night
is your business.

702
00:46:21,744 --> 00:46:23,790
- It's all day.
- Don't want to know!

703
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:30,673
Women are the hardest hit
in the poor working class areas.

704
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,873
An average salary: 4 fr. A day
for men and 2 fr. For women.

705
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,073
Many dressmakers only get
<i>from 50 centimes to 1.2 fr.</i>

706
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:47,113
" 20-30,000 Parisian women
practise the "fifth-quarter","

707
00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:49,672
the time set
for illicit prostitution,

708
00:46:49,722 --> 00:46:53,348
in wine sellers' back shops,
hotels, or their own homes.

709
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:03,268
At this hour,
the Government has evacuated Paris.

710
00:47:03,679 --> 00:47:06,989
Our army has withdrawn
in marching order.

711
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,789
This information
is completely false.

712
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,190
The troops retreated
in such haste and chaos

713
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,552
that several regiments
were forgotten in Paris.

714
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,117
The National Guard Battalions

715
00:47:20,119 --> 00:47:23,828
have taken the Town Halls
and barracks in east Paris.

716
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,895
We're approaching
the National Guard.

717
00:47:29,945 --> 00:47:33,913
Hello, we're from the Commune TV.
What are your needs?

718
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:35,917
I'm very glad you're here.

719
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:38,829
We have the best men.
Look at them.

720
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:42,913
We have the cannon, what we really
need is ammunition, boots.

721
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:44,598
Look at them, they're barefoot!

722
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,638
We need uniforms, ammunition,
modern rifles.

723
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:51,719
Our structure is very good,
democratic and federal.

724
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,429
We're very pleased with it as it is.

725
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:56,556
But we need rifles and ammunition.

726
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:00,389
We have piston rifles
from the start of the century.

727
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,396
They take 3-4 minutes to load,

728
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,593
the powder's damp,
the shot never goes off.

729
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:09,555
Their troops have chassepot rifles
firing 8 shots a minute.

730
00:48:09,605 --> 00:48:12,716
How can we fight modern rifles
with medieval ones?

731
00:48:13,159 --> 00:48:14,274
It's totally crazy!

732
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:18,069
We'll massacre them,
because they're bourgeois shit!

733
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,358
We'll beat them,
take their guns and power!

734
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:26,394
<i>It seems</i>
the National Guard Central Committee

735
00:48:26,444 --> 00:48:28,476
<i>has moved into the Town Hall</i>

736
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:32,070
<i>and put the capital</i>
in an insurrectionary position.

737
00:48:34,159 --> 00:48:35,514
What are you watching?

738
00:48:35,564 --> 00:48:36,793
National TV.

739
00:48:37,159 --> 00:48:39,070
You mustn't watch National TV,

740
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,677
you must watch the TV
that belongs to the people.

741
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,035
" We'll publish "Pere Duchene"
tomorrow."

742
00:48:46,159 --> 00:48:47,877
- We were banned.
- Tomorrow!

743
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,352
" You must write
to the "Pere Duchene"."

744
00:48:50,402 --> 00:48:52,715
OK, but publish.
We'll trust you,

745
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:55,230
but publish in full.

746
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,070
We'll publish!

747
00:48:58,159 --> 00:49:01,117
What we really need
is to attack Versailles,

748
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:05,799
because taking cannon without horses
doesn't make sense.

749
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:10,033
To provoke an insurrection,
they would have done just that.

750
00:49:10,159 --> 00:49:13,435
And after insurrection?
Repression.

751
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,638
Versailles is weakened,
but not for long.

752
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:18,990
We must react right now,

753
00:49:19,159 --> 00:49:21,798
before it's too late,
or we'll be the suckers.

754
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:31,198
What are your needs?

755
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,271
We need a change of government,

756
00:49:33,679 --> 00:49:36,318
we're fed up with sick rulers.

757
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:40,294
We want to speak,
we can't stay silent!

758
00:49:40,344 --> 00:49:43,829
You must talk about us,
show our living conditions...

759
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,792
Enough religious oppression,
stupid catholics.

760
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,599
You must talk about us,
see how we live.

761
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:53,475
- You can't leave us like this.
- We want bread every day.

762
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,630
She's got something to say, listen.

763
00:49:55,880 --> 00:50:00,158
They make me ashamed
of having syphilis. I have to hide.

764
00:50:00,679 --> 00:50:04,332
The bourgeois have medicine,
we want some too.

765
00:50:04,382 --> 00:50:06,635
People avoid us like the plague.

766
00:50:06,679 --> 00:50:08,874
After the revolution,
maybe we can

767
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,514
eat, love, think,
do other real things.

768
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:16,789
Good evening.

769
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:19,113
What do you intend to do?

770
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:23,030
We officers plan to offer
our services to the new power.

771
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:27,471
It appears quite urgent
to organize this great insurrection,

772
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:31,991
that is to say, to train, run,
supervise and equip it

773
00:50:32,041 --> 00:50:36,198
to defend the new power
which is being set up.

774
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,532
Though the people showed
intelligence and enthusiasm,

775
00:50:40,582 --> 00:50:42,356
they still lack organization.

776
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:47,014
Our role is to set up an effective
and disciplined Parisian army.

777
00:50:47,064 --> 00:50:48,592
There is indeed confusion,

778
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,394
but there are
many volunteer workers:

779
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,209
shoemakers and others...

780
00:50:54,259 --> 00:50:57,909
but they have no experience.
We'll make men out of them

781
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:01,119
to occupy the forts
and attack Versailles.

782
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,319
Could you please
introduce yourselves?

783
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:07,636
General Dombrowski.

784
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:09,353
Colonel Okolowicz.

785
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:11,075
Why are you here?

786
00:51:11,125 --> 00:51:14,356
We have come to help the French

787
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,751
in this struggle against tyranny...

788
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:23,109
and to pursue the war we started
years ago in Poland.

789
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,275
National TV,
Laurent du Champetier.

790
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:34,719
Henri Gothie.

791
00:51:35,119 --> 00:51:36,154
Good evening!

792
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,878
Tonight a special new programme

793
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,070
on a much debated topic: foreigners.

794
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:44,595
We know that the foreign camp

795
00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:47,359
played a leading role
in the insurrection.

796
00:51:47,720 --> 00:51:52,014
I've heard these ludicrous names
that come up in the Commune!

797
00:51:52,064 --> 00:51:53,751
They come from all over.

798
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,472
At every meeting,
in all the small groups,

799
00:51:57,522 --> 00:52:00,039
foreigners all over,
that's all I can say.

800
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:04,791
if we consider the National Guard,
it's infested with Poles...

801
00:52:05,119 --> 00:52:08,395
Yes, those Dombrowskis,
Crapilinskis, Oklowisc

802
00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:12,759
" - and all the other "skis" on earth.
- Whatever they came for,"

803
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:16,037
they're not doing
a very good job of it...

804
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,520
Any experience
in this type of conflict?

805
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:25,155
Sure, urban warfare,
guerrilla groups in Poland.

806
00:52:25,159 --> 00:52:28,515
We have strong
non-professional army experience.

807
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:30,113
Thank you.

808
00:52:34,159 --> 00:52:38,072
As you know,
we're in a rather special situation,

809
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:40,351
with a revolution on one side

810
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,194
and everyday life on the other.

811
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:47,912
We're in the St-Ambroise Church
in the 11 th District.

812
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:52,513
I understand the fear,
the anguished soul,

813
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:54,591
the refusal to suffer,

814
00:52:54,641 --> 00:52:57,518
the anger
of our friends and neighbours,

815
00:52:57,560 --> 00:52:59,471
but to kill!

816
00:52:59,960 --> 00:53:02,392
Why exchange even difficult dialogue

817
00:53:02,442 --> 00:53:04,396
for murder without reason?

818
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,479
It's a triple error.
A political one,

819
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:10,593
to kill without reason
is to give martyrs...

820
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,713
We'd like to know
how the Church is reacting

821
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:16,837
to yesterday's events.

822
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,555
The priest said people were killed,

823
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,479
" but the Church says:
"Thou shall not kill"."

824
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:26,909
We killed 2 people,
how many will come in reprisal?

825
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:30,509
Four, five, a whole neighbourhood,
we don't know.

826
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,950
- What do you think?
- Violence was never a solution.

827
00:53:34,159 --> 00:53:38,118
But who let my 2 children
die of cold and hunger, who?

828
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,476
They say that God is merciful.

829
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:44,196
These kids were innocent,
they had no time to sin.

830
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:47,670
Where was the priest
when I was raped by my boss?

831
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,633
It didn't stop him
from kicking me out!

832
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,630
- You practise regularly?
- Yes.

833
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,349
if you want to eat
every day it helps.

834
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,636
We get some soup,
and we can take food home.

835
00:53:59,960 --> 00:54:03,191
I've been brought up like that.
The priest told me

836
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:05,952
it was a sin to have an abortion.

837
00:54:06,002 --> 00:54:09,589
What's the point of having kids,
if they die?

838
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:15,117
left us free to choose
what we do with the life He gave us,

839
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:18,990
but killing never solved problems.

840
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:23,070
God gave us life for living,
not destroying.

841
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:24,793
So be it!

842
00:54:28,159 --> 00:54:30,627
Hello ladies, you're not in Church.

843
00:54:31,159 --> 00:54:33,354
- No, we're not!
- No, really not!

844
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:35,374
For us, religion

845
00:54:35,424 --> 00:54:37,792
keeps women ignorant and passive.

846
00:54:37,842 --> 00:54:42,117
Have you noticed how they teach
the children there? Heads down.

847
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:44,755
Those girls will never say:

848
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:47,315
"No, I'm against that, never!"

849
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:49,874
- They're taught hierarchy.
- Submission!

850
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:53,272
- Church is power.
- We're not taught to think!

851
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:56,473
- They get crumbs.
- My son won't be a priest.

852
00:54:56,523 --> 00:54:58,476
They teach them authority,

853
00:54:59,960 --> 00:55:01,473
divine authority.

854
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:11,150
Hello, here we are again
with Joachim Riviere.

855
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:13,316
"Pere Duchene" reporter, remember?"

856
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:16,232
I'm recording
the opinion of the Guard

857
00:55:16,282 --> 00:55:18,593
on elections
by the Central Committee.

858
00:55:19,159 --> 00:55:23,311
You have an interesting opinion,
would you share it with us?

859
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:25,831
Raoul from the 140th.

860
00:55:25,881 --> 00:55:29,435
The Central Committee
played a big role

861
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:33,839
in the defence of Paris
and the ousting of the Government,

862
00:55:34,159 --> 00:55:37,435
but today its legitimacy
is mainly military.

863
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:41,833
We must give it a stronger
authority, and therefore vote

864
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:46,033
to elect a Commune to represent
people more efficiently.

865
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,920
<i>National TV Versailles,</i>
latest news update.

866
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:06,998
<i>Good evening.</i>

867
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:12,075
<i>With great sorrow</i>
we report the disturbances

868
00:56:12,125 --> 00:56:14,474
<i>in Paris since yesterday.</i>

869
00:56:16,159 --> 00:56:19,834
<i>We have just been informed</i>
that Generals Lecomte and Thomas

870
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,815
<i>were savagely killed by the crowd</i>

871
00:56:22,865 --> 00:56:25,718
<i>during the recovery of the cannon...</i>

872
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,310
Madame, what are you doing here?

873
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:31,231
I own the clothing shop

874
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:33,398
and the wash-house.

875
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:36,120
What do you think
of yesterday's events?

876
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:40,758
I don't understand, I'm stunned.
Two generals killed, what for?

877
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,690
We hoped things were better,
we'd get back to work.

878
00:56:45,740 --> 00:56:49,394
Now what will happen?
There are no more orders.

879
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:53,318
I would take orders
from anyone at all

880
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:56,352
to pay my workers,
I can no longer pay them.

881
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:59,830
- May we ask them some questions?
- Of course!

882
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:04,314
- Do you work here?
- Yes, when there's work available.

883
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:08,452
I've been here 3 days,
there's never any work for me.

884
00:57:08,502 --> 00:57:11,193
There's no food at home.
What am I to do?

885
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:14,269
What do you think of recent events?

886
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:16,271
I think it's great...

887
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:19,555
Two generals were killed because...

888
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:21,478
we're dying of hunger.

889
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:25,599
It's our hope that killed 2 generals
and poverty that's killing us.

890
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:29,753
It's time for change. I'm like
my friend, waiting for work.

891
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:33,032
There's no work, no food,
no education.

892
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:36,072
It's time for freedom
and fraternity,

893
00:57:36,122 --> 00:57:37,837
and the time is right, girls.

894
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:41,758
I work in the shop here.
I'm quite old.

895
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:45,870
I've always been poor,
I have a large family,

896
00:57:46,159 --> 00:57:49,754
I've never been able
to give them what I'd have liked.

897
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:53,990
My situation has always been
dreadful.

898
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,635
I don't know
what to think of all this,

899
00:57:58,159 --> 00:58:01,276
but I would really like...

900
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:04,855
my children to live
more decently than me.

901
00:58:04,905 --> 00:58:07,433
I've really led
a life of misery.

902
00:58:10,159 --> 00:58:14,198
I'm happy they killed
those generals.

903
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:18,350
It's a good thing they eliminated
those mad dogs.

904
00:58:19,159 --> 00:58:23,232
And I want it to go further,
that they all be eliminated

905
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:26,158
so we can live in peace.

906
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:30,919
We want to work, eat, that's all...

907
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:34,955
The cannon are our blood,
let's not cry over generals.

908
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:37,912
The owner, she has her nice sides,

909
00:58:37,962 --> 00:58:39,791
but she's still a bourgeois.

910
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:42,133
The bourgeois stole everything.

911
00:58:42,183 --> 00:58:45,993
Three revolutions and they even
took over our good Lord.

912
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:47,633
That's enough!

913
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:50,719
We want respect,

914
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:55,468
access to schools for our children,
and decent salaries.

915
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:59,190
- What do you think of your owner?
- We're exploited.

916
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:03,911
We work for hours,
late into the night,

917
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:07,272
we're exploited, we want to eat,

918
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:10,415
live a more decent life.

919
00:59:10,465 --> 00:59:13,829
The difference is, she's our boss,
OK, we respect her,

920
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,952
but she eats and profits,
not us.

921
00:59:17,002 --> 00:59:19,440
She eats and does nothing
to help us get food.

922
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:21,834
I'd rather not speak!

923
00:59:21,884 --> 00:59:25,832
I started a week ago
but haven't been paid.

924
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:28,118
I don't know what to do,

925
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:31,238
I have nothing to eat.

926
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:33,953
How do you feel about that?

927
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:38,316
I have been doing my best.

928
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,836
I know they have kids,
that their husbands have left.

929
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:44,992
They go home with no money
to feed them,

930
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:47,275
but I have no more orders,

931
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:49,914
<i>so what will happen toall of us?</i>

932
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,399
We all want to share the wealth,

933
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:57,631
we want work, OK,

934
00:59:57,681 --> 01:00:00,028
but we want to be paid.
Enough's enough!

935
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:03,552
We work and have nothing,
she keeps it all.

936
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:05,915
It's not true that she's helping us.

937
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:08,554
Sure,
we come here all day like scumbags,

938
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:13,092
we depend on her.
I'm not sure I'll get any work now,

939
01:00:13,142 --> 01:00:15,235
having said this in her presence.

940
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:19,436
She could sell her necklace
and share the money.

941
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:21,557
But that's not done.

942
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:24,313
It's not,
and when she speaks of the market,

943
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:27,472
she never shares the profits anyway.

944
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:32,315
We sweat for 13 hours,
we have no food when we get home,

945
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:35,079
but she does,
it's warm in her house.

946
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,369
Will things change now
for the workers?

947
01:00:38,419 --> 01:00:42,876
I'll take orders from anyone
to be able to keep them, pay them

948
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:46,171
so they can feed the kids,
but I need a market.

949
01:00:46,221 --> 01:00:49,596
But why do we always work for you,

950
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:51,830
and you get the best out of life?

951
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:54,913
Why are we dying off, and not you?

952
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:57,469
We've always had bosses and workers.

953
01:00:57,560 --> 01:00:59,118
" We'll end that "always"."

954
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:01,669
Times are changing starting now!

955
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:05,716
We're going to fight,

956
01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:08,535
we'll go all the way, we won't stop!

957
01:01:08,585 --> 01:01:10,357
We're the future.

958
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:14,071
All the way!

959
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:16,311
This street is ours now.

960
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:21,470
We need a doctor to take care of us.

961
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:26,750
What are your needs right now?

962
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:29,535
I've only one thing to say.
I'm pregnant.

963
01:01:29,585 --> 01:01:31,710
I don't want my kid to live like us,

964
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:33,757
I don't want him to eat rats,

965
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:39,671
I don't want him to be
building barricades...

966
01:01:39,721 --> 01:01:41,238
The sisters are coming!

967
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:50,514
- Where did you get your bread?
- I stole it.

968
01:01:50,564 --> 01:01:51,799
- Stole it?
- Yes.

969
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:54,236
Go on, let the ladies through.

970
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:01,994
Come on. Blockheads!

971
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:03,993
You poor girls!

972
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:05,633
Ugly!

973
01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:17,636
What are you hoping for?

974
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:23,711
To go to Versailles,
to get ammunition

975
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:25,871
for the Central Committee to act.

976
01:02:25,921 --> 01:02:27,552
I'll tell you what I want!

977
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:30,513
I want our working conditions
changed.

978
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:33,674
Our kids,
our 1 0, 1 2 year old children

979
01:02:33,724 --> 01:02:35,716
work 12 hours a day.

980
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:40,832
We work like slaves -
women, children and adults

981
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:43,155
for starvation wages,

982
01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:46,556
we earn hardly enough to survive.

983
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:49,872
We create the wealth,
where does it go?

984
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:54,431
What do you think
of religious education?

985
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,289
We've got
to stop religious oppression.

986
01:02:58,339 --> 01:03:00,874
Hell isn't up there,
it's right here.

987
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:03,236
It's not really their fault.

988
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:05,796
I went to the sisters' school,

989
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:08,435
what they stick in your head
is crazy.

990
01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:10,271
We need a state school.

991
01:03:10,321 --> 01:03:12,794
Children must have

992
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:15,775
an education
other than religious.

993
01:03:15,825 --> 01:03:17,272
A revolutionary education,

994
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:20,199
we must teach them
our principles today.

995
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:24,268
All children should be like those,
with social principles.

996
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:28,798
They must fight with us.
That's how we'll make a revolution,

997
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:31,335
it won't just happen,
it'll take years.

998
01:03:31,385 --> 01:03:33,953
We have to teach the kids
to join us.

999
01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:36,111
That's all.

1000
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:40,911
Look, we have to take up rifles
to earn respect,

1001
01:03:40,961 --> 01:03:43,633
but it's crazy,
we're not thinking straight,

1002
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:46,235
we should be normal school kids

1003
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:49,113
yet we take up rifles,
you find that normal?

1004
01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:53,712
One third of the children
don't go to school.

1005
01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:56,632
Many young boys
join the insurrection.

1006
01:03:56,720 --> 01:04:00,030
They supply the barricades
and join in combat.

1007
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:03,630
<i>651 will be arrested</i>
by the Versaillais troops.

1008
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:06,673
No statistics exist
on the number killed.

1009
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:10,069
Who gave me this rifle?
The Guard.

1010
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:13,832
- And I'm going to fight.
- There's no other way.

1011
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:17,397
- We'll use the rifle.
- We'll kill them all!

1012
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:20,198
That's all I have to say.

1013
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:23,113
I have a message.
My parents were bourgeois,

1014
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,253
I came here, I split from home.

1015
01:04:25,303 --> 01:04:28,869
I want to tell them
I never want to hear of you again!

1016
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:35,593
Long live the Republic!

1017
01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:38,713
Long live the social Republic!

1018
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:47,074
Hands!

1019
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:05,628
To class!

1020
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:21,752
<i>Then with the women,</i>
it's almost the same story.

1021
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:24,157
<i>One of the leaders,</i>

1022
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:27,319
<i>for example</i>
a certain Elisabeth Dmitrieff,

1023
01:05:27,680 --> 01:05:30,148
apparently a Russian aristocrat

1024
01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:34,639
sent by Karl Marx
from God knows where,

1025
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:36,359
is setting Paris on fire.

1026
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:39,731
I haven't met her,
she's said to be very pretty,

1027
01:05:39,781 --> 01:05:42,399
a hot number,
excuse my language!

1028
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:46,519
Paris is being set ablaze

1029
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:49,874
by a great number
of uncontrollable people.

1030
01:05:49,924 --> 01:05:51,671
Even Arabs in the Guard?

1031
01:05:51,721 --> 01:05:55,673
Yes indeed, the National Guard
has Arabs as well.

1032
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:57,632
They come from Algeria?

1033
01:05:57,680 --> 01:05:59,750
- From Arabia surely!
- Of course.

1034
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:16,492
What do you think
of the upcoming elections?

1035
01:06:16,542 --> 01:06:19,233
We were talking about it
with these ladies,

1036
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:23,109
who are now getting into politics.
Elections are useless.

1037
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:26,353
As usual we have people saying:

1038
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:28,716
"Trust us, we'll do things for you"."

1039
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:33,471
A revolution is done with
the people. Not above the people.

1040
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:37,315
We have to get organized down here,
set up committees,

1041
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:39,755
because we have the weapons,

1042
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:42,255
we have the real power,
production power.

1043
01:06:42,305 --> 01:06:45,112
Political power is crap.

1044
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:49,452
Who needs all those bourgeois,
they know how to read and write.

1045
01:06:49,502 --> 01:06:51,709
Will there be a worker up there?

1046
01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:55,509
Precisely, now we have to build
a popular government

1047
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,495
of workers and revolutionaries...

1048
01:06:58,545 --> 01:07:00,755
people like us, who suffer

1049
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:05,188
and know what exploitation means,
who know what humiliation

1050
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:08,353
and working
for starvation wages means,

1051
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:12,510
who can give people
the means to take

1052
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:15,809
their destiny into their own hands,
to govern

1053
01:07:15,859 --> 01:07:19,475
and gain an autonomy
to escape the slavery we're in.

1054
01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:21,874
And what do you think?

1055
01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:26,051
Well, personally,
I don't have the right to vote,

1056
01:07:26,101 --> 01:07:28,958
so that's the first issue
for these elections.

1057
01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:33,559
if you really want all the people
to be involved,

1058
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:37,998
women must also have
the right to vote and participate.

1059
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:42,039
We made this revolution together,
so it has to continue.

1060
01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:46,352
As workers, we're ready to
commit ourselves and to take action.

1061
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:48,789
We can't vote, but we're organizing.

1062
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:51,234
A lot of women workers
throughout Paris

1063
01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:54,312
are mobilizing
- they're ready to fight

1064
01:07:54,362 --> 01:07:56,031
for real changes.

1065
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:57,555
And you?

1066
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,970
I was in favour
of burning down the Paris Town Hall

1067
01:08:01,020 --> 01:08:03,109
because the people there

1068
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:07,998
took great pleasure in enslaving us.

1069
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:11,590
Now we might start
to get a taste

1070
01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:13,556
for sprawling in velvet armchairs,

1071
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,673
so I'm not sure
I trust future events.

1072
01:08:21,799 --> 01:08:22,754
Are we ready?

1073
01:08:24,799 --> 01:08:26,710
Citizens, good evening.

1074
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:28,838
We're now in the Town Hall.

1075
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:31,992
lmagine,
it's my first time in this place.

1076
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:34,514
Behind this door,
there's a corridor,

1077
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:38,011
at the end of it
is the hall

1078
01:08:38,061 --> 01:08:42,551
where 20 Central Committee members,
including E. Moreau, are meeting.

1079
01:08:42,799 --> 01:08:46,075
The Guard has no intention
of holding onto power

1080
01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:49,394
and is organizing for elections
next Wednesday.

1081
01:08:49,444 --> 01:08:53,075
It will soon be up to you,
to decide with your votes

1082
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:55,272
<i>if there'll be a Commune.</i>

1083
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:57,638
<i>And I quote Edouard Moreau:</i>

1084
01:08:57,799 --> 01:09:01,394
<i>"We must prepare the elections</i>
and give you"

1085
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:05,279
<i>"what you've always wanted,</i>
the birth of a true Republic."

1086
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:08,350
<i>He added that, meanwhile,</i>

1087
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:12,878
<i>the Central Committee would stay</i>
in control in the people's name.

1088
01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:21,510
Jenny Talbot,
married to a teacher of oratory,

1089
01:09:21,799 --> 01:09:25,508
lives in a quiet street
near the Madeleine.

1090
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:32,190
The Talbots read the Paris press:

1091
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:34,769
"Le Temps", "Le Gaulois",
"Le Siecle"."

1092
01:09:34,819 --> 01:09:37,398
Today,
they'd certainly watch the TV news.

1093
01:09:39,200 --> 01:09:42,510
Mme Talbot writes regularly
to her daughter Marie,

1094
01:09:42,799 --> 01:09:45,929
married to a civil servant
in Versailles.

1095
01:09:45,979 --> 01:09:49,553
The letters show the life
of an upper-class household

1096
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,116
in Paris during the Commune.

1097
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:06,430
<i>Here I am in Paris</i>
with Government malcontents.

1098
01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:11,636
<i>I loathe the Parisians</i>
being in constant revolt.

1099
01:10:13,759 --> 01:10:16,810
<i>I cannot tell you</i>
what I think of a Government

1100
01:10:16,860 --> 01:10:19,148
<i>that did nothing for 3 weeks</i>

1101
01:10:19,759 --> 01:10:22,193
<i>to recover the cannon</i>
from the rebels,

1102
01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:25,794
<i>and then one morning</i>
decided to do that,

1103
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:31,630
<i>without taking the necessary steps</i>
to ensure success.

1104
01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:39,669
<i>And having failed,</i>
fled to Versailles,

1105
01:10:40,759 --> 01:10:43,273
<i>leaving the insurrection in control,</i>

1106
01:10:43,759 --> 01:10:47,149
<i>and without</i>
the slightest resistance.

1107
01:10:53,480 --> 01:10:55,351
The Communards are convinced

1108
01:10:55,401 --> 01:10:58,590
the Government wants to stop
a socialist Republic,

1109
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:00,632
by restoring the Monarchy.

1110
01:11:02,719 --> 01:11:06,075
In fact, Thiers,
while humouring the monarchists,

1111
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:10,518
is pursuing his plans in favour
of a conservative Republic.

1112
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:14,998
An upstart petit-bourgeois,
Thiers, 73,

1113
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:17,509
has been in politics for 40 years.

1114
01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:20,611
" Parisians hate him
and call him "little runt"

1115
01:11:20,661 --> 01:11:23,273
" or "Thiers l,
King of the Defeatists"."

1116
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:27,149
A conservative Orleanist,
advocate of law and order,

1117
01:11:27,799 --> 01:11:31,428
Thiers doesn't mind a Republic
as long as he's President.

1118
01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:39,269
Gentlemen!

1119
01:11:45,440 --> 01:11:49,070
Thiers plans to create
a united front at the Assembly.

1120
01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:52,749
The war against the Commune
will serve as a pretext.

1121
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:58,635
In the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost.

1122
01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:00,832
Amen.

1123
01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:04,432
Hail Mary, full of grace,

1124
01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:06,556
the Lord is with thee.

1125
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:09,415
Blessed art thou amongst women,

1126
01:12:09,465 --> 01:12:12,710
and blessed
is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

1127
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:15,275
Holy Mary, Mother of God,

1128
01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:18,329
pray for us sinners,

1129
01:12:18,379 --> 01:12:22,472
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

1130
01:12:23,120 --> 01:12:26,812
In the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost.

1131
01:12:26,862 --> 01:12:28,232
Amen.

1132
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:31,714
Sit down and work well children.

1133
01:12:34,520 --> 01:12:37,671
Take your reading books
and turn to page 1 1 1.

1134
01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:45,033
Celine, you start.

1135
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:51,715
The title of today's reading is:

1136
01:12:52,520 --> 01:12:55,637
"Being happy
means having a clear conscience"."

1137
01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:59,112
"Child, true bliss
does not come from without."

1138
01:12:59,719 --> 01:13:02,233
"It comes from deep within our soul."

1139
01:13:02,719 --> 01:13:04,277
"From our conscience."

1140
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:12,390
The Paris Town Hall
in the 4th District.

1141
01:13:12,679 --> 01:13:14,271
March 28, 1871.

1142
01:14:24,799 --> 01:14:26,710
Citizens, good afternoon!

1143
01:14:27,799 --> 01:14:30,192
It's a wonderful day here in Paris!

1144
01:14:30,242 --> 01:14:33,351
The Town Hall square
is now swarming with people.

1145
01:14:33,799 --> 01:14:35,710
Parisians of all classes

1146
01:14:35,760 --> 01:14:39,639
have come to witness
the proclamation of the Commune.

1147
01:14:39,799 --> 01:14:42,313
The elected members
are on the platform,

1148
01:14:42,799 --> 01:14:45,074
their red sashes
echoing the red flags

1149
01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:47,509
covering the Town Hall facade.

1150
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:49,989
The results: 80 elected members.

1151
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:52,389
Only 12 seats are still vacant.

1152
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:55,535
13 elected
from the Central Committee,

1153
01:14:55,585 --> 01:14:58,312
4 radicals,
<i>15 members of the Mayor's Party,</i>

1154
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:01,833
9 Blanquists, 4 Neo-Jacobins

1155
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:03,910
and 11 lndependent Socialists.

1156
01:15:03,960 --> 01:15:07,075
" To quote the press,
and first the "Pere Duchene":"

1157
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:11,109
"Proletarians will finally claim
their rights,"

1158
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:13,830
"and reap
the fruit of their labour."

1159
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:16,512
" And the "Cri du Peuple":
"The Commune"

1160
01:15:16,562 --> 01:15:20,518
"requites for 20 years of Empire,
6 months defeat and treason."

1161
01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:23,637
Long live the Commune!
Now some interviews.

1162
01:15:24,200 --> 01:15:26,316
Hope you'll be able to hear us.

1163
01:15:26,600 --> 01:15:28,471
Hello. What's it like here today?

1164
01:15:28,521 --> 01:15:30,516
It's a wonderful day!

1165
01:15:30,799 --> 01:15:34,109
See that? The Republic and Socialism
united at last.

1166
01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:36,391
See the flags! It's fantastic!

1167
01:15:36,799 --> 01:15:38,471
What a day! I'm so happy!

1168
01:15:38,600 --> 01:15:39,874
What will change?

1169
01:15:39,924 --> 01:15:42,313
Everything! I never dreamed of this!

1170
01:15:42,799 --> 01:15:45,833
Everything's going to change.
Come, let's dance!

1171
01:15:45,883 --> 01:15:47,027
Thank you!

1172
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:51,158
Hello!
What do you think of all this?

1173
01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:54,749
Now it's the workers
who are going to be the bosses.

1174
01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:57,630
Look at the poverty we live in.

1175
01:15:57,799 --> 01:16:00,597
Who cares about us workers?

1176
01:16:00,799 --> 01:16:02,517
We're treated like dogs.

1177
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:05,910
So today,
I say long live the Commune!

1178
01:16:06,200 --> 01:16:07,155
Thank you.

1179
01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:11,111
How do you feel about today?

1180
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:13,431
They have reasons to revolt,

1181
01:16:13,481 --> 01:16:16,472
but I don't want it
to get out of hand.

1182
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:21,115
What do you mean?
It's legal, they've been elected.

1183
01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:24,670
What do they want?
They're being led by foreigners!

1184
01:16:24,799 --> 01:16:27,108
Our highest values are ridiculed.

1185
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:29,077
What are these elections?

1186
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:32,398
They're just a handful of rebels,

1187
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:36,213
they don't represent the population.
Not a bit!

1188
01:16:36,263 --> 01:16:37,076
I'm very frightened.

1189
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:38,958
What's your business here?

1190
01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:41,655
We're Republicans but we want peace.

1191
01:16:41,705 --> 01:16:43,750
- We want calm.
- Order and peace!

1192
01:16:45,799 --> 01:16:48,255
We're also members
of the French nation!

1193
01:16:48,305 --> 01:16:50,873
These people think
they're back in 1789.

1194
01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:53,589
It's grotesque and illegitimate.

1195
01:16:53,600 --> 01:16:55,079
They're lost.

1196
01:16:55,400 --> 01:16:58,870
- It's foreign-led manipulation.
- Exactly, manipulation!

1197
01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:10,949
the Marseillaise
is a revolutionary song, Madame.

1198
01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:16,158
What do you think of today?

1199
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:18,072
It's great!

1200
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:19,997
- Really!
- A big change!

1201
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:22,912
And at last Paris is ours,
tell him!

1202
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:25,434
Paris is ours... yes.. really!

1203
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:27,752
What will change for you?

1204
01:17:27,799 --> 01:17:31,314
I was in the street for months,
now I have shelter.

1205
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:33,513
We'll have equality!

1206
01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:37,719
It's a real revolution
for the people.

1207
01:17:41,600 --> 01:17:43,158
What's it like here today?

1208
01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:45,894
Very good!
Long live the Commune!

1209
01:17:45,944 --> 01:17:48,836
- We won! We won!
- We've had enough. We won!

1210
01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:53,114
Death to poverty!

1211
01:17:56,600 --> 01:17:58,113
Peace and work!

1212
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:02,236
That is where our future lies.

1213
01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:07,392
The Republic will make France

1214
01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:10,836
the friend of the weak,
the protector of the worker.

1215
01:18:12,200 --> 01:18:13,519
Hope...

1216
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,833
hope for the oppressed
of the entire world...

1217
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:21,954
and the basis
of a Universal Republic.

1218
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:28,233
The Commune we establish today

1219
01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:32,037
will be a model for all Communes.

1220
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:38,239
The country and the Government

1221
01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:43,034
will applaud this revolution,

1222
01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:46,278
the most fertile in our history!

1223
01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:17,197
Citizen Jourde wishes to speak
for the Commune.

1224
01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:21,072
Citizens,

1225
01:19:21,799 --> 01:19:25,838
we, the elected members
of the Central Committee,

1226
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:28,533
now elected members of the Commune

1227
01:19:28,583 --> 01:19:32,075
by popular will
of the Paris population,

1228
01:19:33,200 --> 01:19:36,192
hand over to the Commune Council,

1229
01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:38,668
in the name
of the Central Committee,

1230
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:42,715
the power which recent events
vested in us.

1231
01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:47,194
- Now we'll hear...
- I haven't finished!

1232
01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:49,918
The Central Committee

1233
01:19:50,600 --> 01:19:52,352
will again take up

1234
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:55,358
the duties it originally held.

1235
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:57,115
I thank you.

1236
01:19:57,200 --> 01:19:59,714
Citizen Varlin
would also like to speak.

1237
01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:04,432
Your elected members
will defend your freedom with energy

1238
01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:07,116
and for all time.

1239
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:11,037
Brothers among you,
let your brothers show you

1240
01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:13,989
the path to the future.

1241
01:20:14,600 --> 01:20:18,513
Make the task easier
by helping in the necessary reforms.

1242
01:20:18,799 --> 01:20:21,996
Rally round your Commune with trust.

1243
01:20:22,897 --> 01:20:26,287
Our shared aim
is a Universal Republic.

1244
01:20:26,497 --> 01:20:28,169
And with the women too!

1245
01:20:28,897 --> 01:20:30,455
Of course with women!

1246
01:20:32,497 --> 01:20:34,647
With everyone, children, women!

1247
01:20:34,897 --> 01:20:38,014
We won't forget them.
Workers, everyone...

1248
01:20:38,497 --> 01:20:40,089
Long live the Commune.

1249
01:20:48,696 --> 01:20:50,254
Long live France!

1250
01:21:09,576 --> 01:21:12,886
The turnout at the polls is 48%.

1251
01:21:13,177 --> 01:21:16,307
Nearly the same
as for the mayor in 1870.

1252
01:21:16,357 --> 01:21:19,487
The figure varies greatly
with the Districts.

1253
01:21:19,777 --> 01:21:23,452
" In the "posh areas",
fewer than 40% vote,"

1254
01:21:23,977 --> 01:21:27,731
compared with over 62%
in the working class neighbourhoods.

1255
01:21:31,177 --> 01:21:34,487
So many workers
elected to the Commune Council

1256
01:21:34,777 --> 01:21:37,907
is a first
in European political history:

1257
01:21:37,957 --> 01:21:40,086
21 members are proletarian,

1258
01:21:40,777 --> 01:21:43,575
30 are journalists
or men of letters,

1259
01:21:43,777 --> 01:21:46,211
13 are employees or craftsmen.

1260
01:21:48,696 --> 01:21:52,769
Different political trends
try to coexist inside the Council:

1261
01:21:52,897 --> 01:21:56,207
1. Supporters of the revolutionary
Auguste Blanqui,

1262
01:21:56,497 --> 01:21:58,055
2. Autocratic Jacobins,

1263
01:21:58,297 --> 01:22:02,336
who long for a return to 1789
and centralized power in Paris.

1264
01:22:02,497 --> 01:22:06,649
3. Socialists trying to create
a network of federated Communes.

1265
01:22:11,377 --> 01:22:14,926
It's a disgrace.
To hear the Carmagnole

1266
01:22:14,977 --> 01:22:18,049
after what happened
in '89, 1830 and '48...

1267
01:22:18,576 --> 01:22:20,965
But Madame, it's a celebration!

1268
01:22:20,977 --> 01:22:24,367
They've been elected
by only half the Parisians!

1269
01:22:24,576 --> 01:22:26,567
So what are you doing here?

1270
01:22:26,977 --> 01:22:30,572
We have a right to be here.
We belong to this nation.

1271
01:22:30,576 --> 01:22:32,986
Aren't you moved by all this hope?

1272
01:22:33,036 --> 01:22:33,614
No.

1273
01:22:34,177 --> 01:22:36,486
They'll end up starving, Madame.

1274
01:22:36,576 --> 01:22:40,364
There'll be no-one left to pay them.
Look at their kids!

1275
01:22:41,977 --> 01:22:42,966
Thank you.

1276
01:22:44,377 --> 01:22:46,845
Hello.
What do you think of this day?

1277
01:22:48,576 --> 01:22:50,430
It's fantastic, I'm very moved.

1278
01:22:50,480 --> 01:22:53,972
I hope this will be the start
of something new.

1279
01:22:54,576 --> 01:22:56,986
We've waited so long for this.

1280
01:22:57,036 --> 01:23:00,413
I hope this means
something exceptional,

1281
01:23:01,177 --> 01:23:03,771
but I'm not too sure.
I'm scared.

1282
01:23:08,857 --> 01:23:12,470
Near Versailles
is the military camp of Satory,

1283
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:16,735
where the Government is busy
regrouping its demoralized army...

1284
01:23:22,897 --> 01:23:24,615
What are you doing here?

1285
01:23:24,696 --> 01:23:27,005
I had to... I needed the money,

1286
01:23:27,696 --> 01:23:30,005
without it I can't survive.

1287
01:23:31,297 --> 01:23:34,528
if your parents
were watching you on TV,

1288
01:23:35,497 --> 01:23:36,771
what would they think?

1289
01:23:36,821 --> 01:23:38,812
Well, precisely, I'm here to save...

1290
01:23:40,297 --> 01:23:43,528
save my farm
and bring home money, but still...

1291
01:23:45,097 --> 01:23:47,213
ls saving France something too?

1292
01:23:47,497 --> 01:23:51,285
Well yes, but getting into
this situation is something too.

1293
01:23:55,057 --> 01:23:57,173
In exactly 2 months,

1294
01:23:57,457 --> 01:24:01,109
the Versailles army
and its young provincial recruits

1295
01:24:01,159 --> 01:24:03,287
will be facing
the people of Paris...

1296
01:24:03,457 --> 01:24:05,925
and their children.

1297
01:24:10,777 --> 01:24:13,450
"When Francinet was alone,"

1298
01:24:13,777 --> 01:24:15,813
"he thought through..."

1299
01:24:16,777 --> 01:24:17,732
Go on!

1300
01:24:18,576 --> 01:24:21,409
"... all that had happened
since the previous day."

1301
01:24:21,576 --> 01:24:23,214
Louder! Start again!

1302
01:24:23,977 --> 01:24:28,129
"It happened to be just
at that time, the day before..."

1303
01:24:28,177 --> 01:24:28,927
Come now!

1304
01:24:29,377 --> 01:24:33,495
"... his heart was so full
of gall and jealousy..."

1305
01:24:39,097 --> 01:24:40,689
Recently M. Thiers

1306
01:24:40,897 --> 01:24:43,931
" suggested that newspapers
like "Le Gaulois" and "Le Soir"

1307
01:24:43,981 --> 01:24:47,173
be distributed among your soldiers,

1308
01:24:47,497 --> 01:24:49,408
to boost troop morale.

1309
01:24:49,897 --> 01:24:51,790
Do you think this is a good idea?

1310
01:24:51,840 --> 01:24:55,894
It's very important that
this mental confusion stop.

1311
01:24:57,097 --> 01:25:00,009
Don't forget the Commune
was built on crime.

1312
01:25:00,097 --> 01:25:02,486
Two of our generals were executed.

1313
01:25:02,497 --> 01:25:05,967
Our army has been disgraced by...

1314
01:25:07,897 --> 01:25:09,853
the rabble in Montmartre.

1315
01:25:10,297 --> 01:25:13,846
We, the army,
as well as the Government,

1316
01:25:13,897 --> 01:25:16,570
must explain
the nature of our struggle.

1317
01:25:33,337 --> 01:25:35,134
What we have here are yobbos.

1318
01:25:35,137 --> 01:25:38,174
They behave like good-for-nothings.

1319
01:25:39,337 --> 01:25:41,247
We'll show them who's in charge.

1320
01:25:41,297 --> 01:25:43,332
The soldiers will understand this.

1321
01:25:43,536 --> 01:25:46,767
We're not leaving Paris
to this cosmopolitan scum.

1322
01:25:48,337 --> 01:25:52,012
Yobbos,
probably led by a handful of...

1323
01:25:53,137 --> 01:25:57,733
foreign agitators.
We have to make this quite clear.

1324
01:25:57,937 --> 01:26:01,816
The point isn't fighting
French people, it's law and order.

1325
01:26:02,137 --> 01:26:03,928
French or not, it's the same.

1326
01:26:03,978 --> 01:26:07,486
A soldier's task is easy.

1327
01:26:08,137 --> 01:26:10,287
The Republic is in danger,
and we respond.

1328
01:26:10,536 --> 01:26:11,651
We're trained for that.

1329
01:26:11,737 --> 01:26:13,455
Does everyone agree on this?

1330
01:26:13,536 --> 01:26:15,891
French people have a right to know,

1331
01:26:15,937 --> 01:26:18,167
France is watching right now.

1332
01:26:18,337 --> 01:26:20,976
ls the army united
behind its leaders?

1333
01:26:21,337 --> 01:26:22,975
Yes, absolutely.

1334
01:26:23,137 --> 01:26:25,776
No question,
we'll have law and order.

1335
01:26:26,137 --> 01:26:26,890
No compromises.

1336
01:26:26,940 --> 01:26:29,092
You can guarantee
that these soldiers

1337
01:26:29,737 --> 01:26:32,535
from all over the country

1338
01:26:32,737 --> 01:26:35,867
will bring France victory?

1339
01:26:35,917 --> 01:26:38,888
We must defend freedom,
show what the Commune is:

1340
01:26:39,337 --> 01:26:41,612
terror, crime...

1341
01:26:43,536 --> 01:26:45,731
things the Republic cannot accept.

1342
01:26:45,937 --> 01:26:47,211
It's disorder!

1343
01:26:48,337 --> 01:26:50,293
We're not enemies
of France or the French people.

1344
01:26:50,737 --> 01:26:53,456
The Communards are creating unrest.

1345
01:26:53,737 --> 01:26:56,046
That's all there is to it.

1346
01:26:56,137 --> 01:26:58,332
We'll intervene and improve things!

1347
01:26:58,536 --> 01:27:02,734
French people will understand.
No one wants to live in chaos.

1348
01:27:03,337 --> 01:27:05,805
We are the guarantors
of law and order,

1349
01:27:06,337 --> 01:27:08,646
and will act accordingly.

1350
01:27:08,737 --> 01:27:10,534
We shall use all means necessary.

1351
01:27:12,937 --> 01:27:17,249
With these good words we leave you.
France is counting on you.

1352
01:27:17,737 --> 01:27:18,806
Thank you.

1353
01:27:24,337 --> 01:27:26,328
<i>Good afternoon.</i>

1354
01:27:26,737 --> 01:27:29,129
<i>It's a wonderf</i><i>ul day here in Paris. </i>

1355
01:27:29,179 --> 01:27:32,413
<i>The Town Hall square</i>
<i>is now swarming with people.</i>

1356
01:27:32,737 --> 01:27:34,887
<i>Parisians of all classes</i>

1357
01:27:35,137 --> 01:27:39,130
<i>have come to witness</i>
<i>the proclamation of the Commune...</i>

1358
01:27:42,576 --> 01:27:45,568
Despite the enthusiasm
sparked by the election,

1359
01:27:45,576 --> 01:27:48,568
the fear of centralized power
is in the air.

1360
01:27:48,576 --> 01:27:50,567
"March 27, "Pere Duchene" writes:"

1361
01:27:50,977 --> 01:27:54,589
"... a recipe
against returning traitors,"

1362
01:27:54,639 --> 01:27:58,694
"... in use at the time...
<i>the Committee of Public Safety! "</i>

1363
01:28:03,457 --> 01:28:07,575
During the revolution of 1789,
the Committee of Public Safety

1364
01:28:07,656 --> 01:28:11,729
was an infamous instrument
of political terror.

1365
01:28:11,857 --> 01:28:16,055
To talk of this Committee in 1871
revives sinister memories.

1366
01:28:18,817 --> 01:28:21,012
TV Communale's editorial staff

1367
01:28:21,217 --> 01:28:25,051
"has decided not to mention
the "Pere Duchene" article,"

1368
01:28:25,417 --> 01:28:27,885
for fear of negative reactions...

1369
01:28:30,817 --> 01:28:34,856
We talk about the Committee
of Public Safety and you don't.

1370
01:28:35,017 --> 01:28:36,269
I don't understand why.

1371
01:28:36,319 --> 01:28:38,811
It's quite clear.

1372
01:28:39,217 --> 01:28:42,015
We're talking
about the proclamation...

1373
01:28:43,417 --> 01:28:44,606
of the Commune,

1374
01:28:44,656 --> 01:28:48,404
we're talking
about people's hopes...

1375
01:28:48,817 --> 01:28:51,811
It's not the time
to mention the Committee.

1376
01:28:51,861 --> 01:28:53,250
It's a celebration,

1377
01:28:53,616 --> 01:28:57,246
everyone's happy
and wants to enjoy the moment.

1378
01:28:57,296 --> 01:29:00,015
All in good time.

1379
01:29:00,217 --> 01:29:03,847
Rejoice, OK, but you must develop
a critical attitude.

1380
01:29:03,897 --> 01:29:06,809
There's no analysis,
you give the info plain.

1381
01:29:07,417 --> 01:29:10,489
It's important to produce analysis,
proposals.

1382
01:29:11,017 --> 01:29:14,028
Yes, but it's a bit tricky
because we also try

1383
01:29:14,078 --> 01:29:16,326
to let people express themselves.

1384
01:29:17,017 --> 01:29:19,472
We show extracts...

1385
01:29:19,522 --> 01:29:22,568
Look, there,
we let the bourgeois women speak.

1386
01:29:23,616 --> 01:29:28,371
Frankly, we're not going to talk
about that because there's no way

1387
01:29:28,417 --> 01:29:31,508
the members of the Commune
are going to establish

1388
01:29:31,558 --> 01:29:34,568
a Committee of Public Safety, ever.

1389
01:29:35,017 --> 01:29:36,973
You have the right to disagree,

1390
01:29:37,417 --> 01:29:41,132
but why don't you say so
and explain your point of view.

1391
01:29:41,182 --> 01:29:42,416
It's a bit tricky.

1392
01:29:42,817 --> 01:29:45,172
We've chosen to go towards

1393
01:29:45,217 --> 01:29:47,572
getting the people
to express their opinions.

1394
01:29:47,616 --> 01:29:50,084
We don't give our opinion,
the people...

1395
01:29:50,616 --> 01:29:55,426
We ask the opinion of the bourgeois,
the priest, etc.,

1396
01:29:55,476 --> 01:29:58,648
to create controversy
in the situation.

1397
01:29:59,017 --> 01:30:03,850
You can criticize
while supporting the Commune.

1398
01:30:03,900 --> 01:30:06,570
In my opinion,
it's important to underline problems

1399
01:30:06,817 --> 01:30:09,809
if they are to be solved.

1400
01:30:10,417 --> 01:30:14,767
It's also true that your interviews
are very interesting.

1401
01:30:14,817 --> 01:30:16,607
Since people have things to say...

1402
01:30:17,616 --> 01:30:20,210
They speak for the first time.

1403
01:30:21,817 --> 01:30:25,253
But it's too short,
you've got to give them more time.

1404
01:30:25,417 --> 01:30:27,328
But you need to have rhythm

1405
01:30:27,817 --> 01:30:31,447
to win people's attention
on television.

1406
01:30:31,497 --> 01:30:36,828
It has to be fast paced
like that for people.

1407
01:30:36,878 --> 01:30:41,254
if we have debates going on forever,
they'll just turn off the TV.

1408
01:30:42,217 --> 01:30:44,253
<i>Wait... it's their revolution!</i>

1409
01:30:44,616 --> 01:30:47,414
But this way,

1410
01:30:47,616 --> 01:30:51,206
we allow everyone
to express themselves.

1411
01:30:51,256 --> 01:30:52,969
It's chopped up anyway.

1412
01:30:53,017 --> 01:30:56,851
"Take any "Pere Duchene" quote:"

1413
01:30:57,217 --> 01:31:01,369
"No mercy for jackasses!"
It's always like that in the news."

1414
01:31:01,417 --> 01:31:03,772
Of course, if you pick on one quote.

1415
01:31:03,817 --> 01:31:07,207
It's not one quote,
everything's written like that.

1416
01:31:10,417 --> 01:31:12,806
Well, it's the same
for our TV shots.

1417
01:31:13,417 --> 01:31:15,453
Read the whole paper.

1418
01:31:15,817 --> 01:31:18,206
Excuse me, are you journalists?

1419
01:31:20,616 --> 01:31:23,733
Are you aware
of the new insurrection

1420
01:31:24,217 --> 01:31:27,308
that started last January
in Algeria,

1421
01:31:27,358 --> 01:31:30,254
after the return of the Spahis?

1422
01:31:30,817 --> 01:31:31,966
The Spahis?

1423
01:31:32,017 --> 01:31:34,326
The Spahis are...

1424
01:31:36,217 --> 01:31:39,175
a kind of National Guard,
or native police force

1425
01:31:39,217 --> 01:31:43,415
which was supposed to operate
on Algerian territory

1426
01:31:44,017 --> 01:31:47,686
but was forced to fight
against the Prussians.

1427
01:31:47,736 --> 01:31:51,734
When they returned after the war,
- return isn't the right word -

1428
01:31:52,417 --> 01:31:54,647
since a lot of them
were killed on the spot,

1429
01:31:54,817 --> 01:31:57,249
used as cannon fodder,

1430
01:31:57,299 --> 01:32:00,687
that's actually
what sparked things off.

1431
01:32:00,817 --> 01:32:03,536
It's a disaster over there.

1432
01:32:04,417 --> 01:32:05,975
Who are they fighting?

1433
01:32:06,217 --> 01:32:10,290
The French troops in Algeria.

1434
01:32:10,417 --> 01:32:13,534
It's tough, it never stops...

1435
01:32:15,217 --> 01:32:17,492
And that's not all.

1436
01:32:18,817 --> 01:32:23,666
Since they arrived in North Africa
they've never stopped

1437
01:32:23,716 --> 01:32:28,007
confiscating people's land
and possessions

1438
01:32:29,616 --> 01:32:33,894
to further European colonization.

1439
01:32:34,417 --> 01:32:36,726
Now the people have nothing left,

1440
01:32:36,817 --> 01:32:39,570
they are manhandled
by the French soldiers,

1441
01:32:39,817 --> 01:32:42,377
they're helpless,
they've got nothing.

1442
01:32:43,417 --> 01:32:44,896
They're killed.

1443
01:32:45,817 --> 01:32:47,216
It's total misery.

1444
01:32:51,097 --> 01:32:55,056
In 1870, in an attempt
to avoid defeat by the Prussians,

1445
01:32:55,297 --> 01:32:58,209
War Secretary Leon Gambetta

1446
01:32:58,297 --> 01:33:02,370
issued orders for the mobilization
of the Algerian Spahis.

1447
01:33:02,497 --> 01:33:06,934
Several Algerians from a Paris
detachment rally to the Commune.

1448
01:33:08,737 --> 01:33:11,570
"The Spahis
are not regular soldiers,"

1449
01:33:11,737 --> 01:33:15,730
"but a type of National Guard
or police force"

1450
01:33:15,937 --> 01:33:18,497
"... their tasks are essentially
sedentary"

1451
01:33:18,937 --> 01:33:22,407
"... they can only be deployed
within Algerian borders."

1452
01:33:22,536 --> 01:33:27,052
"... This order has violated
a tacit and traditional agreement."

1453
01:33:27,337 --> 01:33:30,409
Oran Prefect to Gambetta.

1454
01:33:32,737 --> 01:33:36,286
General Emile Eudes
of the Blanquist National Guard

1455
01:33:36,337 --> 01:33:39,932
picks an orderly from
the Paris based Algerian Spahis.

1456
01:33:39,937 --> 01:33:43,725
He calls him Nigger
because of the colour of his skin.

1457
01:33:48,576 --> 01:33:50,532
Citizens, good evening.

1458
01:33:51,576 --> 01:33:54,409
Live from outside
the Town Hall Council,

1459
01:33:54,576 --> 01:33:57,374
we will inform you
of the ensuing debates.

1460
01:33:57,576 --> 01:33:59,612
Rather difficult,

1461
01:33:59,977 --> 01:34:04,493
as the first decision has been
to close the meetings to the public!

1462
01:34:05,737 --> 01:34:10,208
<i>There's been tension between the</i>
<i>Commune and the Central Committee</i>

1463
01:34:10,536 --> 01:34:12,606
<i>on the question of power sharing.</i>

1464
01:34:12,937 --> 01:34:15,212
<i>Delegates Chalin and Mortier</i>

1465
01:34:15,337 --> 01:34:17,487
<i>apparently asked</i>
<i>the Central Committee</i>

1466
01:34:17,737 --> 01:34:21,286
<i>to disband and hand over its power</i>
<i>to the Commune.</i>

1467
01:34:21,337 --> 01:34:22,736
<i>One question remains:</i>

1468
01:34:23,137 --> 01:34:27,050
<i>who governs France - the Commune</i>
<i>or the Versailles Assembly?</i>

1469
01:34:27,817 --> 01:34:30,251
"For the "Cri du Peuple",
it's clear:"

1470
01:34:30,817 --> 01:34:34,532
"if the Versailles Assembly
had an ounce of common sense"

1471
01:34:34,582 --> 01:34:36,612
"it would admit its mandate is over,"

1472
01:34:36,817 --> 01:34:41,095
"and retire in favour of the
country's true elected members."

1473
01:34:41,616 --> 01:34:42,806
"The "Pere Duchene":"

1474
01:34:42,856 --> 01:34:47,811
"Prove you've got guts by ordering
the National Assembly to dissolve."

1475
01:34:48,217 --> 01:34:51,687
"Dismiss and disband it,
crush them if they resist."

1476
01:34:51,817 --> 01:34:54,209
"Force is yours, but only by law."

1477
01:34:54,259 --> 01:34:56,856
The Commune passed
the following decrees:

1478
01:34:57,217 --> 01:35:01,529
suspension of payment for rents,

1479
01:35:02,017 --> 01:35:05,130
and a ban on all gambling.

1480
01:35:05,180 --> 01:35:08,009
All dice, roulette, lottery gamblers

1481
01:35:08,616 --> 01:35:12,609
will be arrested
and brought to police headquarters.

1482
01:35:18,217 --> 01:35:22,495
That the debates are not made public
is intolerable.

1483
01:35:23,017 --> 01:35:26,327
The Guard will ensure that
all sessions are open to the public.

1484
01:35:29,616 --> 01:35:31,015
Not military matters.

1485
01:35:31,417 --> 01:35:35,205
We know what military secrets
lead to!

1486
01:35:35,616 --> 01:35:39,808
Elected citizens, speak up,
it's the start of secrecy, trickery!

1487
01:35:39,858 --> 01:35:42,695
People want to know.
What do you say?

1488
01:35:45,817 --> 01:35:48,809
Why are they trying to confiscate

1489
01:35:49,417 --> 01:35:52,295
the power we just won?

1490
01:35:52,417 --> 01:35:56,012
- We're reproducing the old system.
- Exactly, enough!

1491
01:35:56,017 --> 01:35:58,087
No one can confiscate our power

1492
01:35:58,417 --> 01:36:02,631
and stop us attending the debates.

1493
01:36:02,681 --> 01:36:07,007
We want the power for the people,
they should decide!

1494
01:36:11,017 --> 01:36:12,927
Exactly the same old system.

1495
01:36:12,977 --> 01:36:16,366
What's the point
if you copy the old system?

1496
01:36:17,616 --> 01:36:20,335
I'm for having debates
open to the public.

1497
01:36:21,217 --> 01:36:25,415
Then do something!
We can't, that's why we elected you!

1498
01:36:26,616 --> 01:36:29,574
The citizen is with us
if he helps us.

1499
01:36:29,616 --> 01:36:33,006
What we really want
is to attend the debates,

1500
01:36:33,217 --> 01:36:34,889
it's our right.

1501
01:36:35,017 --> 01:36:37,656
Not absurd decrees

1502
01:36:38,017 --> 01:36:40,531
on dice and lottery!

1503
01:36:46,297 --> 01:36:50,848
Good morning.
April 3, very early in the morning,

1504
01:36:51,097 --> 01:36:54,089
the Guard are preparing
to march on Versailles.

1505
01:36:54,097 --> 01:36:57,692
There seem to have been attacks
on Corbevoie yesterday.

1506
01:36:58,297 --> 01:37:00,765
Can you explain what you're up to?

1507
01:37:01,297 --> 01:37:04,607
We're off to Versailles,
we've waited for 10 days.

1508
01:37:04,897 --> 01:37:07,908
The Central Committee guys
are incompetent.

1509
01:37:07,958 --> 01:37:11,128
They gave the Versailles guys
time to get ready.

1510
01:37:11,497 --> 01:37:15,410
I fully agree with my comrade.

1511
01:37:15,697 --> 01:37:18,086
We're leaving with few resources,

1512
01:37:18,097 --> 01:37:22,375
I'm practically weaponless,
I hardly have ammunition or food.

1513
01:37:22,897 --> 01:37:27,095
The Central Committee
isn't aware of these problems.

1514
01:37:27,697 --> 01:37:30,106
But I think that we're on our way

1515
01:37:30,156 --> 01:37:34,375
to fraternizing
with our Versailles comrades

1516
01:37:34,897 --> 01:37:39,368
who are still unaware of the great
popular tide in Paris.

1517
01:37:39,697 --> 01:37:43,327
We'll explain,
and show them what's going on.

1518
01:37:43,377 --> 01:37:46,050
We must explain the Commune values,

1519
01:37:46,297 --> 01:37:48,686
and that the Parisians support it.

1520
01:37:48,697 --> 01:37:52,656
I think any citizen can understand.

1521
01:37:53,497 --> 01:37:55,886
Look what happened on March 18.

1522
01:37:55,897 --> 01:37:58,570
One lowered his rifle,
then they all did.

1523
01:37:58,897 --> 01:38:01,457
I still believe in man.
It's possible...

1524
01:38:01,897 --> 01:38:04,252
No Stephane, watch out.

1525
01:38:04,297 --> 01:38:07,846
Last time they were lads
from and around Paris.

1526
01:38:08,497 --> 01:38:12,087
This time we've got
a monarchist army on our hands.

1527
01:38:12,137 --> 01:38:15,009
Led by aristocrat officers.

1528
01:38:15,097 --> 01:38:19,807
There are 400 monarchists in
Thiers' Assembly, it's their army.

1529
01:38:19,897 --> 01:38:23,014
The monarchy's back
to pinch the Republic.

1530
01:38:23,497 --> 01:38:26,216
Yeah, and we have to watch Thiers,

1531
01:38:26,497 --> 01:38:30,688
he's a manipulator.
We've given him far too much time.

1532
01:38:30,738 --> 01:38:34,736
But come on,
the real enemy is Bismarck,

1533
01:38:34,897 --> 01:38:37,013
the Prussian's our enemy!

1534
01:38:37,297 --> 01:38:40,989
What about the Vendee monarchists
with the king's banner?

1535
01:38:41,039 --> 01:38:42,046
The white flag.

1536
01:38:42,697 --> 01:38:44,096
Thank you very much.

1537
01:38:44,497 --> 01:38:47,648
Citizens Morterol and Heuzey,
how's our police?

1538
01:38:48,697 --> 01:38:53,054
Well my friend,
we're organizing a new police.

1539
01:38:54,097 --> 01:38:55,950
New, because until now

1540
01:38:56,000 --> 01:39:00,334
its job was to protect and preserve
bourgeois interests,

1541
01:39:00,697 --> 01:39:03,848
whereas our task
will be to preserve,

1542
01:39:04,297 --> 01:39:08,551
protect, serve the people's
interests. Hell of a difference, no?

1543
01:39:08,601 --> 01:39:12,775
We're expecting the people
to be their own police with our help

1544
01:39:13,297 --> 01:39:15,527
and the help of the National Guard.

1545
01:39:15,697 --> 01:39:20,213
Our methods will differ totally
from those of the lmperial Police.

1546
01:39:21,097 --> 01:39:21,495
Thank you.

1547
01:39:21,697 --> 01:39:23,029
One thing to know -

1548
01:39:23,079 --> 01:39:26,128
this may sound
a bit like denouncing,

1549
01:39:26,497 --> 01:39:29,057
but when it comes
to protecting the people,

1550
01:39:29,497 --> 01:39:30,789
that's beside the point...

1551
01:39:30,839 --> 01:39:32,528
At this very moment in Paris

1552
01:39:33,097 --> 01:39:37,295
a certain number of policemen
have dropped their uniforms

1553
01:39:37,297 --> 01:39:39,128
to spy among us.

1554
01:39:39,178 --> 01:39:43,727
It's going to be a problem, they're
busy transmitting the information

1555
01:39:46,297 --> 01:39:50,608
they pick up in cafes,
and it can do us a lot of harm.

1556
01:39:50,658 --> 01:39:52,613
So we have to be on our guard.

1557
01:39:52,897 --> 01:39:55,252
And vigilant, extremely vigilant!

1558
01:39:59,137 --> 01:40:01,128
"Did you hear of the "sortie"

1559
01:40:01,536 --> 01:40:05,370
and the decree on the separation
of Church and State?

1560
01:40:06,337 --> 01:40:11,092
It would be great if Church
and State were really separated.

1561
01:40:11,737 --> 01:40:15,127
But Versailles
will never leave it at that.

1562
01:40:15,337 --> 01:40:17,230
That's when things'll get rough.

1563
01:40:17,280 --> 01:40:20,527
The Versailles clergy
will never permit

1564
01:40:21,337 --> 01:40:24,450
the separation of Church and State.

1565
01:40:24,500 --> 01:40:26,567
- We must struggle.
- We'll struggle.

1566
01:40:30,937 --> 01:40:34,976
Citizens, have you read the
French Republic's first principle?

1567
01:40:35,737 --> 01:40:36,852
Freedom!

1568
01:40:37,536 --> 01:40:41,495
Freedom of conscience
is the first of those liberties.

1569
01:40:41,737 --> 01:40:44,615
Article 1:
Church is separated from State.

1570
01:40:45,937 --> 01:40:48,735
Article 2:
The religious budget is cancelled.

1571
01:40:49,536 --> 01:40:52,096
More money for us!

1572
01:40:52,536 --> 01:40:53,685
Knock on the door!

1573
01:41:06,337 --> 01:41:07,133
Can I help you?

1574
01:41:07,536 --> 01:41:11,006
What do you think
about the Church-State separation?

1575
01:41:11,137 --> 01:41:12,349
Now's not the time.

1576
01:41:12,399 --> 01:41:14,248
Surely you have an opinion.

1577
01:41:14,737 --> 01:41:18,093
That may be,
but this is not the time.

1578
01:41:18,937 --> 01:41:23,248
One can be a believer, but
not necessarily in an institution

1579
01:41:23,298 --> 01:41:25,287
that keeps making you feel guilty,

1580
01:41:25,656 --> 01:41:27,772
particularly us women.

1581
01:41:28,057 --> 01:41:31,493
We never have the right to speak.

1582
01:41:31,656 --> 01:41:35,286
They have no right to tell us
what to do. Enough of that!

1583
01:41:35,336 --> 01:41:39,375
I'm a believer and I go to Mass.

1584
01:41:39,457 --> 01:41:43,894
The Church should take care
of religious matters,

1585
01:41:44,257 --> 01:41:47,727
but not meddle with mine
and tell me what to do.

1586
01:41:47,857 --> 01:41:52,453
They told me not to abort. They
never stop making us feel guilty,

1587
01:41:52,656 --> 01:41:55,066
I don't think it's their business.

1588
01:41:55,116 --> 01:41:59,573
"Know what the priest said?
"What, madame, no baby this year?"

1589
01:41:59,857 --> 01:42:02,849
Is that a normal thing
for a priest to say?

1590
01:42:03,457 --> 01:42:04,691
She doesn't agree.

1591
01:42:04,741 --> 01:42:07,066
I come
from the province of Picardy.

1592
01:42:07,116 --> 01:42:09,696
The priest was fine,
he helped the poor.

1593
01:42:10,057 --> 01:42:13,766
In Paris, the local priest
is the only one to help us.

1594
01:42:14,257 --> 01:42:18,330
if they go, what about us poor?
There'll be nobody to help us.

1595
01:42:18,457 --> 01:42:20,866
It's true that the nuns help us.

1596
01:42:20,916 --> 01:42:25,048
But it's not their job. Anyway,
the Republic will give us work.

1597
01:42:25,098 --> 01:42:27,127
And take care of you as well.

1598
01:42:27,457 --> 01:42:31,609
We have to go to Versailles
to save the Republic.

1599
01:42:31,656 --> 01:42:34,534
With courage, even if it's hard!

1600
01:42:35,497 --> 01:42:38,728
What do you think
about the military situation?

1601
01:42:39,097 --> 01:42:41,657
We don't know much about it.

1602
01:42:42,097 --> 01:42:44,592
And that's why I think we should go

1603
01:42:44,642 --> 01:42:47,295
to Versailles, to find out.

1604
01:42:48,697 --> 01:42:53,293
There's a call to women
in the newspapers. Listen:

1605
01:42:53,497 --> 01:42:56,049
"Let's tell Versailles
about the Revolution."

1606
01:42:56,099 --> 01:42:59,412
"Paris made the Commune
because we want freedom."

1607
01:43:00,097 --> 01:43:03,727
"The Government's responsible
for our brothers' blood,"

1608
01:43:03,777 --> 01:43:06,257
"we hold it accountable
for our grief."

1609
01:43:06,697 --> 01:43:07,812
That's beautiful.

1610
01:43:07,897 --> 01:43:11,970
"Let's meet at noon at Concorde,
and go to Versailles."

1611
01:43:12,097 --> 01:43:13,968
Let's go to Versailles.

1612
01:43:14,018 --> 01:43:15,774
You want to go to Versailles?

1613
01:43:16,297 --> 01:43:21,007
Yes, but to talk, without weapons.
We must speak to them.

1614
01:43:21,697 --> 01:43:25,610
On the 18th, Versailles troops
refused to fire on the Guard.

1615
01:43:25,897 --> 01:43:29,048
We must convince them once more.

1616
01:43:29,497 --> 01:43:34,207
The situation was different.
They were in Paris, outnumbered.

1617
01:43:34,297 --> 01:43:38,256
They had problems with the cannon,
we rushed in the breach.

1618
01:43:38,497 --> 01:43:40,806
It's totally different today.

1619
01:43:42,697 --> 01:43:45,257
The Versailles army is powerful now.

1620
01:43:45,697 --> 01:43:49,389
Our enemy has one idea in mind,
to massacre us!

1621
01:43:49,439 --> 01:43:52,175
No, they won't fire on women.

1622
01:43:52,897 --> 01:43:56,094
We've been in a state of siege
for several months.

1623
01:43:56,497 --> 01:43:58,727
We can't repeat it, we're isolated.

1624
01:43:58,897 --> 01:44:03,687
We must open ourselves
to the Provinces, spread the word,

1625
01:44:03,697 --> 01:44:06,973
so more people follow us.
We can't go right now.

1626
01:44:07,297 --> 01:44:10,812
You're naive, think
they'll listen when you're there?

1627
01:44:11,497 --> 01:44:15,229
They've been putting
bad ideas in their heads for a week:

1628
01:44:15,279 --> 01:44:17,292
we're barbarians to be eliminated.

1629
01:44:17,497 --> 01:44:21,172
You're crazy to go to Versailles,
they're armed!

1630
01:44:22,897 --> 01:44:26,651
But don't get the enemy mixed up.

1631
01:44:27,097 --> 01:44:31,391
It's not the people who face us...
Thiers is our enemy.

1632
01:44:31,441 --> 01:44:34,607
We must tell them
they're our brothers and our sons.

1633
01:44:35,497 --> 01:44:37,647
You don't grasp
military organization,

1634
01:44:37,897 --> 01:44:39,615
Versailles is ready for us!

1635
01:44:39,697 --> 01:44:43,133
We must go armed.
I can tell you,

1636
01:44:43,297 --> 01:44:48,132
I know what handling a weapon means.
And we can all handle weapons.

1637
01:44:48,697 --> 01:44:52,167
There's no reason
to separate men and women.

1638
01:44:52,297 --> 01:44:56,336
I don't want violence or bloodshed.

1639
01:44:56,497 --> 01:45:00,809
Even so, we need
more women with the battalions,

1640
01:45:01,297 --> 01:45:04,926
there's work for 4 women
per battalion, why am I alone?

1641
01:45:07,536 --> 01:45:10,494
Andre Leo,
journalist and active socialist,

1642
01:45:10,536 --> 01:45:14,927
rises against the misogyny
within Commune staff, and notes:

1643
01:45:15,337 --> 01:45:18,170
"... on the part of officers
and surgeons,"

1644
01:45:18,337 --> 01:45:21,215
"an absence of sympathy,
curtness, insult,"

1645
01:45:21,337 --> 01:45:24,613
"a bourgeois, authoritarian,
narrow and mean mind."

1646
01:45:24,937 --> 01:45:27,212
La Sociale, May 6.

1647
01:45:33,457 --> 01:45:34,856
Hello, gentlemen!

1648
01:45:35,257 --> 01:45:39,648
The women we've been speaking to
would like to help the army.

1649
01:45:40,057 --> 01:45:42,412
- What do you think?
- What's that?

1650
01:45:42,457 --> 01:45:46,336
Women would like to help the army,
join you in your attack.

1651
01:45:46,656 --> 01:45:49,208
Of course,
we welcome all volunteers...

1652
01:45:49,258 --> 01:45:53,335
in the army, women are very
glorious, determined and brave,

1653
01:45:53,857 --> 01:45:56,610
and they are more than welcome,

1654
01:45:56,857 --> 01:45:59,948
I believe them
to be good combatants.

1655
01:45:59,998 --> 01:46:02,166
We need all the help we can get.

1656
01:46:02,857 --> 01:46:04,092
And what do you think?

1657
01:46:04,142 --> 01:46:08,096
Did I get this right?
Women in the army? Is this a joke?

1658
01:46:08,857 --> 01:46:11,576
It's out of the question.
Did you hear that Brunet?

1659
01:46:13,057 --> 01:46:15,446
Listen, I honestly think

1660
01:46:15,457 --> 01:46:18,847
there are more important issues
at stake right now,

1661
01:46:19,057 --> 01:46:20,729
this matter can wait.

1662
01:46:20,857 --> 01:46:23,132
No, we've got to go to Versailles.

1663
01:46:23,857 --> 01:46:28,408
Let's be practical,
the women can be used to cook, sew,

1664
01:46:28,656 --> 01:46:32,269
perhaps in the infirmary,
certainly behind the curtains

1665
01:46:32,319 --> 01:46:34,452
to help warriors rest.
That's all!

1666
01:46:36,457 --> 01:46:40,814
As a doctor with the National Guard,
are you going to Versailles?

1667
01:46:41,857 --> 01:46:43,210
That's my duty sir.

1668
01:46:43,656 --> 01:46:46,690
Would you be ready to accept women,

1669
01:46:46,740 --> 01:46:49,489
for example as ambulance helpers?

1670
01:46:49,656 --> 01:46:51,647
Madame, I'm afraid

1671
01:46:52,057 --> 01:46:55,652
that women on the field
of operations is inopportune

1672
01:46:55,656 --> 01:46:57,135
for the moment.

1673
01:46:57,457 --> 01:47:02,133
Why should our presence by the side
of our wounded be inopportune?

1674
01:47:02,257 --> 01:47:03,849
They're our husbands.

1675
01:47:04,057 --> 01:47:07,208
Based on the ethics
of a military situation,

1676
01:47:07,656 --> 01:47:11,808
our oaths do not include

1677
01:47:12,457 --> 01:47:15,210
recruiting women to the battlefield.

1678
01:47:15,457 --> 01:47:20,008
But some women have been trained
to become doctors.

1679
01:47:20,257 --> 01:47:24,448
They don't have a diploma,
but they could help.

1680
01:47:24,498 --> 01:47:29,133
Don't you understand that we're
on the verge of civil war?

1681
01:47:29,257 --> 01:47:31,566
Sure we understand, of course we do.

1682
01:47:32,257 --> 01:47:34,771
Your brothers and husbands will die.

1683
01:47:35,257 --> 01:47:37,110
That's why we should be there.

1684
01:47:37,160 --> 01:47:39,491
They're your kids,
brothers, husbands.

1685
01:47:40,057 --> 01:47:42,569
These are bourgeois methods
to make us

1686
01:47:42,619 --> 01:47:46,006
feel guilty for sending them off.
The men are free.

1687
01:47:46,657 --> 01:47:48,295
Free to fight if they wish.

1688
01:47:48,457 --> 01:47:50,652
Don't you mind
sending them off to die?

1689
01:47:50,857 --> 01:47:51,767
We're not!

1690
01:47:52,057 --> 01:47:53,615
You're sending everyone.

1691
01:47:53,857 --> 01:47:56,908
They decided,
and you people will kill them.

1692
01:47:56,958 --> 01:48:00,930
if you feel guilty,
go to Versailles and speak to them.

1693
01:48:01,057 --> 01:48:05,892
But you see, we didn't go to
Versailles. We stayed here with you.

1694
01:48:06,457 --> 01:48:09,733
You're with us,
but don't want us to take part.

1695
01:48:10,057 --> 01:48:13,891
We don't want you to send
your husbands and brothers off.

1696
01:48:14,257 --> 01:48:17,852
That's our business.
Now we must go to the barricades

1697
01:48:17,857 --> 01:48:20,132
to look after these people.

1698
01:48:20,257 --> 01:48:23,454
We're offering help and support,

1699
01:48:23,857 --> 01:48:26,369
but if nobody wants it,
we'll do it alone.

1700
01:48:26,419 --> 01:48:29,249
Maybe later it'll be organized
and you'll help.

1701
01:48:29,857 --> 01:48:32,769
"What's this "later"?
It's happening now,"

1702
01:48:32,857 --> 01:48:36,293
not in 10 years' time!

1703
01:48:38,257 --> 01:48:40,831
Where's your husband, has he left?

1704
01:48:40,881 --> 01:48:45,048
But my husband...
I'll try to find him and help you...

1705
01:48:45,457 --> 01:48:47,413
He's your God, not ours!

1706
01:48:47,857 --> 01:48:51,930
- Why so upset over the Good Lord?
- Jesus was an anarchist,

1707
01:48:52,057 --> 01:48:54,173
the carpenter always on strike.

1708
01:48:54,457 --> 01:48:56,891
Jesus the artist, the leader...

1709
01:48:59,257 --> 01:49:01,771
You have made him
the God of the bourgeois.

1710
01:49:03,457 --> 01:49:05,368
And our beautiful Virgin Mary,

1711
01:49:06,457 --> 01:49:10,655
the Virgin Mary of my youth,
with her little blue veil,

1712
01:49:10,657 --> 01:49:14,848
and her little Jesus,
you've raped her!

1713
01:49:14,898 --> 01:49:16,495
Want to ask a question
or get an answer?

1714
01:49:16,657 --> 01:49:19,217
Bastards!

1715
01:49:19,657 --> 01:49:24,094
Shame on you,
preaching order and family.

1716
01:49:24,457 --> 01:49:28,052
Enough with order, family, husbands,

1717
01:49:28,057 --> 01:49:29,888
we want to be free, free at last.

1718
01:49:30,457 --> 01:49:32,015
But nobody forces you
to get married!

1719
01:49:32,257 --> 01:49:35,268
You are parasites
living on the people's back.

1720
01:49:35,318 --> 01:49:39,728
Church money should belong
to the people.

1721
01:49:40,057 --> 01:49:41,871
That luxury is a disgrace.

1722
01:49:41,921 --> 01:49:45,054
But it's not our money,
it belongs to God's people...

1723
01:49:49,057 --> 01:49:50,775
To those who wish to come...

1724
01:49:55,057 --> 01:49:56,848
To teach us to bend our heads!

1725
01:49:56,898 --> 01:50:00,008
Come on, fight for the Commune.

1726
01:50:00,457 --> 01:50:03,290
You won't solve the problem
with a gun.

1727
01:50:03,457 --> 01:50:06,893
On the right end of the gun
you think you're right!

1728
01:50:07,057 --> 01:50:11,311
if it's the other way round!
Will it mean you're no longer right?

1729
01:50:11,361 --> 01:50:13,009
Well, we'll grab his gun.

1730
01:50:13,057 --> 01:50:17,096
if he fires first, you'll die
for nothing. Reason is no gun.

1731
01:50:17,257 --> 01:50:20,329
Excuse me, Madam Defer,
you seem quite annoyed?

1732
01:50:20,857 --> 01:50:24,372
Yes, I'm completely
shattered by this.

1733
01:50:26,257 --> 01:50:28,452
My husband died during the war.

1734
01:50:28,657 --> 01:50:32,445
What can I do
all alone in front of this mob?

1735
01:50:32,857 --> 01:50:35,815
I'm worried.

1736
01:50:35,857 --> 01:50:38,052
We must save the work tools.

1737
01:50:38,257 --> 01:50:41,215
What'll we do
if everyone attacks us like this?

1738
01:50:41,257 --> 01:50:43,851
I'm off to the countryside,
I'm scared.

1739
01:50:44,257 --> 01:50:44,851
Scared?

1740
01:50:44,901 --> 01:50:48,088
Well yes. Because these women
can't reason at all.

1741
01:50:49,057 --> 01:50:53,175
It's impossible to speak with them,
so what'll happen?

1742
01:50:53,257 --> 01:50:55,327
They could at least listen.

1743
01:50:55,657 --> 01:51:00,208
We've been silent for years,
so we're angrier than usual!

1744
01:51:00,457 --> 01:51:02,493
But we're women just like you.

1745
01:51:02,857 --> 01:51:06,406
What will happen next?
Maybe you'll kill me.

1746
01:51:06,457 --> 01:51:09,847
Maybe. If you're not with us, maybe.

1747
01:51:10,057 --> 01:51:14,847
Take off your dress, put on some
pants, we'll see if you're a man.

1748
01:51:17,857 --> 01:51:20,530
Clubs, small popular gatherings,

1749
01:51:20,857 --> 01:51:23,052
flourishing in Paris
since the siege,

1750
01:51:23,257 --> 01:51:25,407
are set up in the churches.

1751
01:51:25,657 --> 01:51:27,448
Night services are suspended,

1752
01:51:27,498 --> 01:51:30,415
the faithful
replaced by apprentice orators,

1753
01:51:30,457 --> 01:51:32,766
including many elated women.

1754
01:51:37,657 --> 01:51:40,651
"The priests should be shot,"

1755
01:51:40,701 --> 01:51:44,127
"they're the ones who stop us
from living as we want."

1756
01:51:44,257 --> 01:51:47,772
"Women shouldn't go to confession;
I should know."

1757
01:51:48,457 --> 01:51:51,548
"l urge all women
to seize all parish priests"

1758
01:51:51,598 --> 01:51:53,413
"and burn their ugly mugs."

1759
01:51:53,857 --> 01:51:55,529
Gabrielle, 17, St. -Sulpice.

1760
01:52:34,536 --> 01:52:36,413
Battalion, on my command...

1761
01:52:38,137 --> 01:52:39,252
Attention!

1762
01:52:48,337 --> 01:52:49,770
Citizens!

1763
01:52:56,137 --> 01:52:57,252
Silence!

1764
01:52:57,337 --> 01:53:00,613
The Sub-Committee delegation
informs you...

1765
01:53:03,337 --> 01:53:06,886
that monarchist conspirators
have moved to the attack.

1766
01:53:08,737 --> 01:53:11,729
Despite our restrained position,
they attacked.

1767
01:53:12,337 --> 01:53:16,967
This morning, soldiers from Vendee,
Brittany, and the police force

1768
01:53:17,137 --> 01:53:21,892
showered the innocent village of
Neuilly with grapeshot and shells.

1769
01:53:23,737 --> 01:53:27,389
They've started a civil war
against our National Guard.

1770
01:53:27,439 --> 01:53:29,726
Many were killed or wounded.

1771
01:53:33,337 --> 01:53:37,376
As elected representatives
of the Paris population,

1772
01:53:38,137 --> 01:53:42,335
our duty is to defend the city
against aggressors.

1773
01:53:44,137 --> 01:53:46,935
We will defend it with your help.

1774
01:53:53,137 --> 01:53:57,892
We depend on
your courage and determination

1775
01:53:58,536 --> 01:54:02,211
to repel the Versailles troops.
Long live the Commune!

1776
01:54:09,337 --> 01:54:10,816
Citizens!

1777
01:54:12,337 --> 01:54:16,888
Let the Versailles spies
lurking among us tell their masters

1778
01:54:17,137 --> 01:54:19,970
of the energy
glowing in our breasts!

1779
01:54:23,137 --> 01:54:26,131
Show them a brave population,

1780
01:54:26,181 --> 01:54:29,812
an army ready to spill its blood
for our country.

1781
01:54:30,937 --> 01:54:32,256
Long live the Commune!

1782
01:54:36,337 --> 01:54:37,975
Women citizens. Listen!

1783
01:54:38,137 --> 01:54:41,015
Let your husbands and children
do their duty.

1784
01:54:41,737 --> 01:54:42,567
To Versailles!

1785
01:54:42,937 --> 01:54:46,532
Battalion, on my command,
to the right. Right!

1786
01:54:46,536 --> 01:54:48,367
Women of the 11 th District,

1787
01:54:48,937 --> 01:54:52,009
you have the honour
of carrying the flag.

1788
01:54:57,337 --> 01:55:02,127
Battalion, to Versailles,
forward march!

1789
01:55:10,536 --> 01:55:11,730
To Versailles!

1790
01:55:44,137 --> 01:55:46,526
It'll be tough but we'll get them.

1791
01:55:56,737 --> 01:55:59,649
What do you think
of the National Guard?

1792
01:55:59,737 --> 01:56:04,333
We think these soldiers
are full of enthusiasm.

1793
01:56:04,536 --> 01:56:07,587
But they lack training
and equipment.

1794
01:56:07,637 --> 01:56:10,812
They're not
well enough organized yet.

1795
01:56:11,137 --> 01:56:16,131
We think this will probably...
cause heavy losses.

1796
01:56:16,536 --> 01:56:18,367
On the other hand,
we have no choice,

1797
01:56:18,937 --> 01:56:21,405
the soldiers must train
on the field.

1798
01:56:23,737 --> 01:56:26,809
Why are you in France?
How did you get here?

1799
01:56:27,337 --> 01:56:31,455
You see, the situation in Poland
is very difficult.

1800
01:56:33,337 --> 01:56:36,647
For us...
do you mind if I speak Polish?

1801
01:56:36,937 --> 01:56:37,687
No, of course.

1802
01:56:42,937 --> 01:56:46,532
After the defeat
of the insurrection of '63...

1803
01:56:50,137 --> 01:56:53,686
we were sentenced to exile
to Siberia.

1804
01:56:59,737 --> 01:57:03,969
But we escaped
on the way to Siberia...

1805
01:57:07,536 --> 01:57:11,688
and chose France
as our country of refuge...

1806
01:57:17,137 --> 01:57:21,494
and offered our services
to the French army

1807
01:57:21,937 --> 01:57:24,690
in the war against the Prussians.

1808
01:57:24,937 --> 01:57:28,486
Are you concerned
for what's going on right now?

1809
01:57:29,137 --> 01:57:34,416
For us, our participation...

1810
01:57:35,737 --> 01:57:37,568
in the National Guard forces

1811
01:57:38,137 --> 01:57:40,856
is a continuation of the struggle

1812
01:57:41,137 --> 01:57:44,334
we've been waging in Poland
for years.

1813
01:57:44,737 --> 01:57:47,615
First of all, because Poland

1814
01:57:47,737 --> 01:57:50,695
has not been independent
for a very long time,

1815
01:57:50,737 --> 01:57:54,855
and we have always supported
the insurrections.

1816
01:57:54,937 --> 01:57:58,373
In our capacity
as military professionals,

1817
01:57:59,137 --> 01:58:01,412
we've always helped

1818
01:58:01,536 --> 01:58:04,369
revolutionary movements.

1819
01:58:05,137 --> 01:58:09,448
After our departure from Poland,

1820
01:58:09,498 --> 01:58:12,215
we offered our military help

1821
01:58:12,337 --> 01:58:14,612
to the French forces

1822
01:58:14,737 --> 01:58:18,127
who were then
fighting the Prussians.

1823
01:58:18,337 --> 01:58:21,170
So our participation
in the National Guard

1824
01:58:21,337 --> 01:58:23,805
is a consequence
of our participation

1825
01:58:24,337 --> 01:58:26,646
in the battle of Paris.

1826
01:58:27,337 --> 01:58:30,388
Also, many of our colleagues fought

1827
01:58:30,438 --> 01:58:33,090
against the Prussians in ltaly,
with Garibaldi.

1828
01:58:33,337 --> 01:58:37,250
For us, it's something
of a tradition.

1829
01:58:37,536 --> 01:58:42,166
I was born in France,
my father came here after the defeat

1830
01:58:42,337 --> 01:58:45,647
of another Polish insurrection
in 1831...

1831
01:58:47,737 --> 01:58:50,192
So I feel as much French as Polish.

1832
01:58:50,242 --> 01:58:54,733
What's more,
I think Poland won't be free

1833
01:58:54,937 --> 01:58:57,690
without a change in France.

1834
01:58:57,937 --> 01:58:59,893
That's why the Commune must win.

1835
01:59:00,337 --> 01:59:02,746
if you want to change Europe,

1836
01:59:02,796 --> 01:59:06,366
you must change its unjust
social order. It's our goal.

1837
01:59:15,457 --> 01:59:17,493
"The "Great Sortie" is a disaster."

1838
01:59:17,857 --> 01:59:21,487
The army puts the Guard to rout
with its artillery fire,

1839
01:59:21,537 --> 01:59:24,130
many prisoners
are executed on the spot,

1840
01:59:24,457 --> 01:59:27,767
including Communard Generals
Duval and Flourens.

1841
01:59:28,057 --> 01:59:32,016
The surviving prisoners
are brought to Versailles.

1842
01:59:38,977 --> 01:59:41,696
I have very little to say
to this Assembly.

1843
01:59:43,177 --> 01:59:47,455
But what I can communicate
is so satisfactory -

1844
01:59:49,177 --> 01:59:52,852
if there can be anything
satisfactory...

1845
01:59:54,576 --> 01:59:56,009
in a civil war -

1846
01:59:58,177 --> 02:00:01,010
so satisfactory, I was saying,

1847
02:00:01,177 --> 02:00:05,773
that the brevity of the account
cannot diminish its importance.

1848
02:00:05,977 --> 02:00:07,615
Louder! We can't hear!

1849
02:00:09,576 --> 02:00:12,010
I ask the Assembly to forgive me,

1850
02:00:13,177 --> 02:00:14,929
my voice is faint.

1851
02:00:16,177 --> 02:00:18,407
I am extremely tired,

1852
02:00:19,777 --> 02:00:23,531
and it will be very difficult
for me to be heard

1853
02:00:24,576 --> 02:00:27,170
at a distance from this gallery.

1854
02:00:29,377 --> 02:00:32,813
Yesterday, as we all know,

1855
02:00:34,177 --> 02:00:38,534
we had to fight
these poor souls, who...

1856
02:00:40,177 --> 02:00:42,247
led astray by perverts,

1857
02:00:43,177 --> 02:00:47,090
wish to follow foreign war
with civil war.

1858
02:00:49,177 --> 02:00:53,967
The army has proven
its deep sense of duty

1859
02:00:55,177 --> 02:00:58,453
and, like the country itself,

1860
02:00:59,377 --> 02:01:01,811
its understanding of the situation.

1861
02:01:04,777 --> 02:01:06,369
The army has shown...

1862
02:01:09,576 --> 02:01:14,366
its remarkable vigour and worth.

1863
02:01:41,137 --> 02:01:43,287
Here are the traitors!
Kill them!

1864
02:01:45,337 --> 02:01:47,646
Shoot them! Murderers!

1865
02:01:54,217 --> 02:01:58,813
General Flourens' body is taken
to Versailles in a wheelbarrow.

1866
02:01:59,017 --> 02:02:03,056
Bourgeois ladies poke at his brains
with their umbrellas.

1867
02:02:14,017 --> 02:02:16,451
It's awful, it's real savagery here.

1868
02:02:17,017 --> 02:02:21,807
Women hitting wounded prisoners
with umbrellas and spitting on them.

1869
02:02:22,417 --> 02:02:23,749
It was hard to stop them.

1870
02:02:23,799 --> 02:02:27,087
I've never seen anything like this,
I'm shocked!

1871
02:02:27,817 --> 02:02:28,932
Anyone else, you?

1872
02:02:29,617 --> 02:02:34,247
I was frankly completely stunned
by the behaviour of the citizens

1873
02:02:34,417 --> 02:02:36,055
we fought for.

1874
02:02:37,417 --> 02:02:40,648
I really never could have imagined
such a thing.

1875
02:02:42,817 --> 02:02:46,127
Had we not been there,
they'd have been executed.

1876
02:02:51,817 --> 02:02:53,887
You were really angry back there.

1877
02:02:54,217 --> 02:02:57,812
These people only understand things
the hard way.

1878
02:02:57,817 --> 02:02:59,887
They are the shame of France.

1879
02:03:00,217 --> 02:03:04,529
It's a great humiliation.
France sold to anarchy, foreigners.

1880
02:03:05,017 --> 02:03:07,472
- It's unbearable.
- No red dictatorship!

1881
02:03:07,522 --> 02:03:10,295
Anyway, this is intolerable.

1882
02:03:11,017 --> 02:03:12,973
It's a disgrace for us, Sir!

1883
02:03:13,417 --> 02:03:16,966
I was with friends.
I got carried away by violence.

1884
02:03:17,017 --> 02:03:20,669
They made us leave Paris.
I don't know what they want.

1885
02:03:20,719 --> 02:03:23,415
What's happening here?
They respect nothing!

1886
02:03:24,217 --> 02:03:26,031
They want our wealth or what?

1887
02:03:26,081 --> 02:03:29,009
There's a risk of dictatorship,
we'll stop it!

1888
02:03:29,617 --> 02:03:33,053
The Prussians besiege Paris,
they take advantage

1889
02:03:33,217 --> 02:03:36,687
of our defeat,
of the Emperor's sickness.

1890
02:03:36,817 --> 02:03:40,469
They take advantage...
to bring chaos. It's a disgrace!

1891
02:03:40,519 --> 02:03:42,806
They dishonour this country.

1892
02:03:43,417 --> 02:03:45,248
They're manipulated, that's all!

1893
02:03:45,298 --> 02:03:49,096
We had to flee to Versailles.
We lost everything.

1894
02:03:49,417 --> 02:03:52,428
And the stink.
The lack of privacy.

1895
02:03:52,478 --> 02:03:54,373
No more Church, State, nothing.

1896
02:03:54,817 --> 02:03:57,172
- Generals killed.
- Back to Paris.

1897
02:03:57,217 --> 02:04:00,368
- They deserve death.
- I want my mansion back.

1898
02:04:00,576 --> 02:04:03,488
We know
they're manipulated by foreigners,

1899
02:04:03,576 --> 02:04:07,888
we know where these foreigners
come from. It's the Garibaldi mob.

1900
02:04:08,377 --> 02:04:11,451
The Emperor gave them permission
to go to London,

1901
02:04:11,501 --> 02:04:13,891
these are ungrateful people.

1902
02:04:14,377 --> 02:04:17,750
That's typical, give them a hand,
they'll take your arm!

1903
02:04:17,800 --> 02:04:20,731
A handful of so-called
enlightened persons,

1904
02:04:20,781 --> 02:04:24,571
and masses who only know brawn,
when they agree to work.

1905
02:04:24,937 --> 02:04:27,610
They are manipulated by foreigners.

1906
02:04:27,937 --> 02:04:30,392
"They destroy everything,
then want bread;"

1907
02:04:30,442 --> 02:04:33,215
they've destroyed their work,
the industry,

1908
02:04:33,337 --> 02:04:36,647
it's all gone, too bad.
Back to work,

1909
02:04:36,937 --> 02:04:40,293
food for them later.
There'll be food for their kids.

1910
02:04:40,536 --> 02:04:43,289
- They're lost without us.
- We surrendered?

1911
02:04:43,536 --> 02:04:45,946
Let 'em wave cannon
at the Prussians.

1912
02:04:45,996 --> 02:04:49,566
- Who gives them work?
- Did they resist the Prussians?

1913
02:04:50,137 --> 02:04:53,368
I didn't see any real sign
of resistance.

1914
02:04:54,937 --> 02:04:56,450
What we want in Germany

1915
02:04:56,737 --> 02:04:59,695
is peace, a stable government,

1916
02:04:59,737 --> 02:05:03,207
in order to get back to business,

1917
02:05:03,337 --> 02:05:05,214
that's what counts, business!

1918
02:05:05,737 --> 02:05:09,207
The two governments
should work together.

1919
02:05:09,337 --> 02:05:13,012
And we want to sign a peace treaty,

1920
02:05:14,137 --> 02:05:16,207
that's the most important.

1921
02:05:17,137 --> 02:05:19,571
You can count on Bismarck.

1922
02:05:20,137 --> 02:05:21,928
There can be important

1923
02:05:21,978 --> 02:05:26,169
business agreements
between France and Germany,

1924
02:05:26,737 --> 02:05:30,889
if we crush this wretched Commune
and its workers...

1925
02:05:35,617 --> 02:05:38,973
Bismarck even released
French prisoners of war.

1926
02:05:39,217 --> 02:05:42,334
You don't understand,
Germany isn't the enemy,

1927
02:05:42,817 --> 02:05:46,253
you're killing yourselves,

1928
02:05:46,417 --> 02:05:49,807
it's a Franco-French war.

1929
02:05:58,657 --> 02:06:00,550
This must stop right away,

1930
02:06:00,600 --> 02:06:03,130
all the Communards must be crushed

1931
02:06:03,457 --> 02:06:07,211
and killed,
they're killers themselves.

1932
02:06:14,497 --> 02:06:18,615
The military rout and the execution
of prisoners by the army

1933
02:06:18,697 --> 02:06:21,530
thrusts the Commune
into a state of war.

1934
02:06:21,697 --> 02:06:26,088
Draft dodgers are arrested,
weapons and resources requisitioned

1935
02:06:26,497 --> 02:06:28,727
to equip the National Guard.

1936
02:06:28,897 --> 02:06:32,970
On April 4, the Archbishop of Paris,
Mgr Darboy, is arrested.

1937
02:06:44,737 --> 02:06:47,297
What's going on?

1938
02:06:47,737 --> 02:06:49,807
- Says he's a journalist.
- He is!

1939
02:06:50,137 --> 02:06:50,850
What proof?

1940
02:06:50,900 --> 02:06:53,297
"I'm a journalist
for the "Pere Duchene"."

1941
02:06:59,017 --> 02:07:01,247
Think I'll simply believe you?

1942
02:07:01,417 --> 02:07:04,295
Maybe you're a spy too. He's a spy!

1943
02:07:05,617 --> 02:07:07,255
"He works for "Pere Duchene"."

1944
02:07:07,417 --> 02:07:09,135
Don't speak to me like that!

1945
02:07:09,217 --> 02:07:12,732
He's with the press.
You've no right to attack him...

1946
02:07:15,217 --> 02:07:18,812
if so, then by tomorrow
we want to see you write

1947
02:07:19,417 --> 02:07:22,932
about youth as you never have
in your old newspaper!

1948
02:07:23,017 --> 02:07:27,169
We want to take part
in these elections...

1949
02:07:27,217 --> 02:07:31,051
Write about the pawnshops,
it's a disgrace to the Commune.

1950
02:07:31,417 --> 02:07:32,692
We want them closed!

1951
02:07:32,742 --> 02:07:37,327
if we don't get our article tomorrow
we'll find you my lad, you hear?

1952
02:07:38,617 --> 02:07:42,871
"As the Versailles government
openly tramples on"

1953
02:07:42,921 --> 02:07:47,937
"the rights of humanity
and the conventions of war,"

1954
02:07:48,217 --> 02:07:50,606
"The Paris Commune decrees:
Article 1:"

1955
02:07:51,217 --> 02:07:55,408
"All persons charged with complicity
with Versailles"

1956
02:07:55,458 --> 02:07:59,729
"will be immediately indicted
and imprisoned."

1957
02:07:59,857 --> 02:08:03,452
<i>"Article 5:</i>
Any execution of a war prisoner"

1958
02:08:04,057 --> 02:08:07,709
"or a partisan
of the Commune lawful government"

1959
02:08:07,759 --> 02:08:10,967
"will be immediately followed
by the execution"

1960
02:08:11,257 --> 02:08:13,213
"of 3 times the number of hostages."

1961
02:08:13,297 --> 02:08:17,415
This macabre decree legalizes
the people's call for revenge.

1962
02:08:17,497 --> 02:08:19,249
It will never be implemented.

1963
02:08:19,297 --> 02:08:21,891
Only in the last days
of the Bloody Week

1964
02:08:22,297 --> 02:08:25,016
will certain hostages
suffer popular fury,

1965
02:08:25,297 --> 02:08:28,926
a desperate reaction
to massacres by the Versaillais.

1966
02:08:30,817 --> 02:08:34,253
Bloody hell! It's madness!
We know the real hostages:

1967
02:08:34,417 --> 02:08:36,533
Bank of France, state property.

1968
02:08:36,697 --> 02:08:40,815
The Commune ignores 3 billion francs
from the Bank of France.

1969
02:08:40,897 --> 02:08:45,015
Anxious to keep a stable currency,
finance Delegate Jourde

1970
02:08:45,097 --> 02:08:49,534
contents himself with small
advances: 17 million francs in all.

1971
02:08:49,897 --> 02:08:54,527
The Bank is more generous
<i>with Versailles: 257 million francs.</i>

1972
02:09:04,417 --> 02:09:09,127
War is never the solution, though
it may be necessary for the moment.

1973
02:09:09,217 --> 02:09:12,846
The Commune,
the Revolution can't forget

1974
02:09:13,417 --> 02:09:15,231
education and children.

1975
02:09:15,281 --> 02:09:18,971
Look around you,
kids hanging out in the street.

1976
02:09:19,417 --> 02:09:21,231
They must be taken care of.

1977
02:09:21,281 --> 02:09:25,893
The Commune needs to open nurseries
to help the women.

1978
02:09:26,017 --> 02:09:28,167
All the daily chores

1979
02:09:28,417 --> 02:09:31,773
have exhausted and degraded them,
this can't go on.

1980
02:09:32,017 --> 02:09:36,010
The Commune must take care of kids,

1981
02:09:36,217 --> 02:09:38,936
from a very early age,

1982
02:09:39,217 --> 02:09:42,291
even before they're old enough
to go to school.

1983
02:09:42,341 --> 02:09:45,573
The children must be socialized.
It's the only way...

1984
02:09:49,417 --> 02:09:53,671
<i>We're now in the heart</i>
<i>of the Commune military system,</i>

1985
02:09:53,721 --> 02:09:55,209
<i>the office of General Cluseret,</i>

1986
02:09:55,417 --> 02:09:59,729
<i>who's just been made War Secretary</i>
<i>and Commander-in-Chief.</i>

1987
02:09:59,977 --> 02:10:03,936
<i>He's assisted</i>
<i>by prestigious foreign officers,</i>

1988
02:10:04,177 --> 02:10:07,613
<i>including General Dombrowski,</i>
<i>a regular Polish soldier</i>

1989
02:10:07,897 --> 02:10:12,015
<i>held in high esteem by Garibaldi.</i>

1990
02:10:12,097 --> 02:10:15,612
<i>He is made Commander of Paris</i>
<i>and the Neuilly sector.</i>

1991
02:10:15,697 --> 02:10:18,731
<i>In the same spirit</i>
<i>of internationalism,</i>

1992
02:10:18,781 --> 02:10:20,415
<i>Dombrowski has given command</i>

1993
02:10:20,497 --> 02:10:23,170
<i>to General La Cecilia</i>
<i>of ltalian origin,</i>

1994
02:10:23,497 --> 02:10:26,375
<i>and to Generals Wroblewski</i>
<i>and Okolowicz.</i>

1995
02:10:27,097 --> 02:10:29,133
We met your husband, how is he?

1996
02:10:29,497 --> 02:10:32,091
Not so well. He's exhausted.

1997
02:10:33,097 --> 02:10:36,692
He's trying to rest,
but as you probably know,

1998
02:10:37,297 --> 02:10:39,792
war has been declared
with Versailles.

1999
02:10:39,842 --> 02:10:41,733
He'll have to leave again.

2000
02:10:43,897 --> 02:10:45,455
We're a bit depressed.

2001
02:10:45,697 --> 02:10:47,574
You're worried about him?

2002
02:10:48,697 --> 02:10:51,370
Yes, I'm really scared.

2003
02:10:54,697 --> 02:10:57,848
Why only foreign generals
in this army?

2004
02:10:58,297 --> 02:11:02,551
ltalians, Spaniards, Poles,
they couldn't find a French one?

2005
02:11:02,601 --> 02:11:04,374
So, what's the problem?

2006
02:11:06,097 --> 02:11:09,692
Who's going to defend
the interests of the people?

2007
02:11:09,697 --> 02:11:12,894
They're perfectly capable, why not?

2008
02:11:13,297 --> 02:11:17,290
It's not the first time a foreigner
defends French interests.

2009
02:11:17,497 --> 02:11:20,887
What's Theron doing to fight,
to defend the Commune?

2010
02:11:21,097 --> 02:11:24,487
I'm not joking,
he's the youngest of us all!

2011
02:11:25,897 --> 02:11:30,607
What about the freedom
to choose to fight or not to fight?

2012
02:11:30,697 --> 02:11:34,770
Shouldn't we have that choice?
Really!

2013
02:11:39,097 --> 02:11:41,691
- It's unfair.
- Why doesn't he fight?

2014
02:11:42,097 --> 02:11:46,969
Why must others die while he hides
in his jeweller's shop? That's crap.

2015
02:11:47,019 --> 02:11:50,253
Come with us to the barricades!
Come!

2016
02:11:50,497 --> 02:11:53,807
- Mother doesn't agree.
- What do your family think?

2017
02:11:54,097 --> 02:11:57,171
Mother's against it.
She thinks it's dangerous.

2018
02:11:57,221 --> 02:11:59,930
But come on,
Dad and Grandpa want us to go.

2019
02:12:00,697 --> 02:12:04,007
The young ones go and fight
and Theron stays here.

2020
02:12:04,297 --> 02:12:07,369
It's outrageous.
It's a disgrace!

2021
02:12:14,497 --> 02:12:17,011
Of course we'll go if we must.

2022
02:12:19,297 --> 02:12:22,255
I fought in Crimea, so there!

2023
02:12:22,897 --> 02:12:25,889
Didn't you see
what happened in Versailles?

2024
02:12:26,497 --> 02:12:29,489
Bloody hell,
see how worried Agnes is?

2025
02:12:29,497 --> 02:12:33,376
Want to fight right here
in the courtyard?

2026
02:12:33,697 --> 02:12:35,574
Is that it? Why not kill him!

2027
02:12:43,417 --> 02:12:44,732
Present arms!

2028
02:12:44,782 --> 02:12:48,212
Attention! Present arms!

2029
02:12:57,217 --> 02:12:58,445
General salute!

2030
02:13:09,577 --> 02:13:13,365
Thiers aims to build an army
powerful enough

2031
02:13:13,777 --> 02:13:15,670
to crush the Paris rebellion.

2032
02:13:15,720 --> 02:13:19,695
His army of 40,000 is reinforced
by returning prisoners,

2033
02:13:19,777 --> 02:13:23,486
accelerated by a peace treaty
signed on May 10.

2034
02:13:23,977 --> 02:13:28,209
He will soon have a trained
and equipped army of 130,000 men.

2035
02:13:34,657 --> 02:13:36,454
How are things going?

2036
02:13:36,457 --> 02:13:41,212
I'm very happy. Our boss has opened
the workshop and wash-house,

2037
02:13:41,257 --> 02:13:44,215
though we're not getting
a salary increase.

2038
02:13:44,857 --> 02:13:48,850
Still, there's a bit of work,
that's a good start.

2039
02:13:49,057 --> 02:13:50,536
Some have nothing.

2040
02:13:51,457 --> 02:13:53,129
Enough of empty stomachs!

2041
02:13:53,257 --> 02:13:55,213
I'll save up for my mattress.

2042
02:13:55,657 --> 02:13:59,013
What do you think
of the present situation?

2043
02:13:59,257 --> 02:14:02,806
The thing is, the more work we get
the less we get paid.

2044
02:14:02,857 --> 02:14:04,728
I fixed a price with the owner,

2045
02:14:04,778 --> 02:14:08,013
but now she'll only pay
half what she promised.

2046
02:14:08,257 --> 02:14:09,736
I can't live on that,

2047
02:14:10,057 --> 02:14:14,448
I don't have time for all the work.

2048
02:14:14,857 --> 02:14:18,470
I think we should have
a place to meet.

2049
02:14:18,520 --> 02:14:22,655
Some have no work, others have
too much, some sleep outside.

2050
02:14:22,657 --> 02:14:25,933
We need a place to meet
and discuss all this.

2051
02:14:26,257 --> 02:14:29,090
Discuss! What for, we have to act!

2052
02:14:29,257 --> 02:14:30,849
We must have solidarity.

2053
02:14:31,057 --> 02:14:34,288
We must act.
Talking won't make things better.

2054
02:14:34,657 --> 02:14:39,412
Let's organize. I'll take the kids,
or do other things.

2055
02:14:40,057 --> 02:14:43,094
Getting organized is fine,
but we must act now.

2056
02:14:43,657 --> 02:14:45,448
It's no good waiting around.

2057
02:14:45,498 --> 02:14:47,049
Give us work.

2058
02:14:49,057 --> 02:14:51,446
All we have is our work.

2059
02:14:51,457 --> 02:14:55,086
I can only give what I've got.
Everyone's off fighting.

2060
02:14:55,657 --> 02:14:59,696
I know I'm paying less,
but I'm doing what I can.

2061
02:15:01,657 --> 02:15:05,287
You're talking money,
I'll show you real solidarity.

2062
02:15:05,337 --> 02:15:08,567
This sheet belongs to a woman
who's too old to work,

2063
02:15:08,857 --> 02:15:10,415
so I do it for her.

2064
02:15:10,657 --> 02:15:14,616
As for the salary, well,
she needs it more than me.

2065
02:15:16,657 --> 02:15:20,889
Maybe the Town Hall will give you
the 11 th District...

2066
02:15:22,057 --> 02:15:24,332
military linen to wash.

2067
02:15:24,457 --> 02:15:26,448
- And the pay!
- I'm negotiating.

2068
02:15:26,857 --> 02:15:30,372
- It's work.
- What's the use if we're not paid?

2069
02:15:30,457 --> 02:15:33,335
Let me speak for a second,
you never let me.

2070
02:15:34,057 --> 02:15:36,207
I am negotiating with the Town Hall

2071
02:15:36,457 --> 02:15:39,587
to get the contract
for the officers' shirts.

2072
02:15:39,637 --> 02:15:42,369
But it's not easy,
with the administration.

2073
02:15:48,697 --> 02:15:50,608
Here in the 11 th District

2074
02:15:51,097 --> 02:15:54,646
a municipality has been organized
since we last came.

2075
02:15:54,697 --> 02:15:57,370
Who are you
and what are you doing here?

2076
02:15:57,697 --> 02:16:02,327
My name is Baux-Picard and
I'm in charge of the registry office

2077
02:16:02,497 --> 02:16:05,694
as well as setting up a commission

2078
02:16:06,697 --> 02:16:08,733
for war widows' pensions,

2079
02:16:09,097 --> 02:16:13,966
and, as of now,
financial assistance for the needy.

2080
02:16:14,497 --> 02:16:16,906
Citizen Verdure, why are you here?

2081
02:16:16,956 --> 02:16:19,252
As an elected member of the Commune

2082
02:16:19,297 --> 02:16:22,653
and 11 th District,
I carry out administrative tasks.

2083
02:16:22,897 --> 02:16:26,526
Today we'll celebrate
our first Republican baptism.

2084
02:16:27,097 --> 02:16:28,086
It's a big event!

2085
02:16:29,497 --> 02:16:31,965
What do you do here?

2086
02:16:32,497 --> 02:16:36,570
I keep the civil register,
control security,

2087
02:16:36,697 --> 02:16:38,972
and draw up information sheets.

2088
02:16:39,097 --> 02:16:41,736
- What's your name?
- Blanche Capellier.

2089
02:16:49,297 --> 02:16:51,208
What are you doing here?

2090
02:16:51,697 --> 02:16:54,691
I'm citizen Patey,
Delegate for subsistence.

2091
02:16:54,741 --> 02:16:59,407
I distribute food stamps,

2092
02:17:00,097 --> 02:17:02,292
with a meal...

2093
02:17:05,497 --> 02:17:08,610
<i>and 500 grams of bread</i>
for each person who's registered.

2094
02:17:08,660 --> 02:17:11,455
That's my role at the Town Hall.

2095
02:17:11,497 --> 02:17:12,771
And what do you do?

2096
02:17:13,297 --> 02:17:14,650
I'm his assistant.

2097
02:17:15,097 --> 02:17:18,829
This procedure was set up
during the siege,

2098
02:17:18,879 --> 02:17:22,326
but we had little to give then.
Now we have something.

2099
02:17:25,297 --> 02:17:28,291
We're from TV Commune.
What are you doing?

2100
02:17:28,341 --> 02:17:31,573
I'm Charles Capellaro,
municipal Delegate,

2101
02:17:31,896 --> 02:17:34,410
in charge
of National Guard supplies:

2102
02:17:34,896 --> 02:17:36,869
equipment, weapons, food stamps.

2103
02:17:36,919 --> 02:17:40,531
As a matter of fact,
this Guard came for food stamps.

2104
02:17:42,697 --> 02:17:45,928
The problem is he doesn't have
an inventory form.

2105
02:17:46,896 --> 02:17:50,127
A document.
My commander didn't give me one.

2106
02:17:50,497 --> 02:17:52,727
Ask him to give you the document.

2107
02:17:53,497 --> 02:17:56,170
Come back and I'll help you!

2108
02:17:58,537 --> 02:18:02,291
Along with registry
and National Guard supplies,

2109
02:18:02,736 --> 02:18:06,406
the Town Hall is in charge
of the revolutionary police,

2110
02:18:06,456 --> 02:18:10,888
and denunciations against
bourgeois enemies and draft evaders.

2111
02:18:11,976 --> 02:18:13,489
Who you are?

2112
02:18:14,017 --> 02:18:18,056
Henri Appollon Guillaume.
I'm in charge of law and order:

2113
02:18:18,217 --> 02:18:21,687
requisitions, searches, arrests,

2114
02:18:21,816 --> 02:18:23,932
and sometimes denunciations too.

2115
02:18:28,417 --> 02:18:30,567
What are you doing here?

2116
02:18:30,816 --> 02:18:35,031
I'm a member of the civilian
delegation Sub-Committee.

2117
02:18:35,081 --> 02:18:37,656
I register statements

2118
02:18:38,617 --> 02:18:42,530
for the arrest of draft evaders,
searches and requisitions.

2119
02:18:47,617 --> 02:18:50,415
What's going on here?

2120
02:18:51,217 --> 02:18:53,970
We're interrogating this citizen
who hangs around bars,

2121
02:18:54,217 --> 02:18:57,414
spreading lies.
He's a draft evader.

2122
02:18:58,417 --> 02:19:00,294
So, citizen!

2123
02:19:00,816 --> 02:19:01,771
What has he done?

2124
02:19:02,017 --> 02:19:05,805
He was spreading lies
and making defeatist remarks.

2125
02:19:06,217 --> 02:19:08,447
He was completely drunk last night.

2126
02:19:08,617 --> 02:19:13,486
He was in the 11 th, because bars
are cheaper here than in Versailles.

2127
02:19:16,417 --> 02:19:18,294
Any comment?

2128
02:19:18,816 --> 02:19:22,889
I don't know, I just woke up.
I was in the bar yesterday,

2129
02:19:23,017 --> 02:19:26,976
and now I'm here with you.
What's this spy thing?

2130
02:19:29,017 --> 02:19:31,690
I was just in the bar,
what do you want?

2131
02:19:33,217 --> 02:19:38,052
Without morals, man is lost.
Save yourself and help the Republic.

2132
02:19:39,816 --> 02:19:43,775
"I'm preparing the first issue
of "Le Proletaire","

2133
02:19:44,017 --> 02:19:48,488
which we'll publish
as soon as we find funds.

2134
02:19:48,816 --> 02:19:50,135
What will you write?

2135
02:19:50,617 --> 02:19:53,668
Whatever
the people of the 11 th want,

2136
02:19:53,718 --> 02:19:57,405
within a certain political frame,
defending certain ideas.

2137
02:19:58,417 --> 02:20:02,376
I'll give you an example
of our political line:

2138
02:20:02,617 --> 02:20:05,848
"We, the proletariat, defend
solidarity, union, equality."

2139
02:20:06,217 --> 02:20:09,527
"We want all privileges
and monopolies to be replaced"

2140
02:20:09,816 --> 02:20:11,647
"by the law of capacity,"

2141
02:20:11,697 --> 02:20:16,133
"so the worker may truly profit
from the product of his labour."

2142
02:20:16,417 --> 02:20:19,966
"We want free, compulsory,
and public primary education."

2143
02:20:20,617 --> 02:20:24,332
"We want the elected delegate
to always be accountable."

2144
02:20:24,382 --> 02:20:28,290
That's what we want, and will debate
in the streets, meetings,

2145
02:20:28,417 --> 02:20:31,170
and in this newspaper very soon.

2146
02:20:47,017 --> 02:20:50,566
Leontine Rombert.
You asked me to arrest her.

2147
02:20:51,816 --> 02:20:53,932
How dare you treat women so?

2148
02:20:54,217 --> 02:20:57,732
The Paris police have asked
the 11 th District Town Hall

2149
02:20:58,417 --> 02:21:02,695
to collect information
concerning certain citizens

2150
02:21:03,217 --> 02:21:05,685
who are in contact with Versailles.

2151
02:21:08,017 --> 02:21:12,135
As police superintendent
for the 11 th, I'll apply

2152
02:21:12,217 --> 02:21:16,210
these measures in the most radical,
even if unpopular, way -

2153
02:21:17,617 --> 02:21:20,495
to establish a tight,
systematic surveillance

2154
02:21:20,617 --> 02:21:23,131
of all activities in the District.

2155
02:21:23,497 --> 02:21:25,852
What about my husband?
I already said...

2156
02:21:26,497 --> 02:21:27,213
Start again!

2157
02:21:27,697 --> 02:21:30,655
He went to Versailles
to do his duty.

2158
02:21:30,697 --> 02:21:33,973
What for?
The Commune is the government now.

2159
02:21:34,297 --> 02:21:36,572
It's his job and his business!

2160
02:21:37,297 --> 02:21:39,686
I've a house to run, kids to raise.

2161
02:21:41,497 --> 02:21:42,930
Do you think it's easy?

2162
02:21:46,297 --> 02:21:48,094
Divorce, citizen!

2163
02:21:55,297 --> 02:21:59,848
You won't have to queue
and you'll get 3 days' rations...

2164
02:22:07,896 --> 02:22:12,208
Citizen Vatrin Gerard
and citizen Desgranges Marie

2165
02:22:13,896 --> 02:22:16,808
declare their wish
to place their child Lucien

2166
02:22:16,896 --> 02:22:21,094
under the protection
of the legal authorities,

2167
02:22:21,697 --> 02:22:24,291
elected by popular will.

2168
02:22:24,697 --> 02:22:29,293
You wish to give
as special protection to your child,

2169
02:22:29,497 --> 02:22:31,889
citizen Lazare Stephane

2170
02:22:31,939 --> 02:22:34,694
and citizen Davis Lucie
as godparents,

2171
02:22:36,097 --> 02:22:39,851
who accept the responsibility,
should his parents ever fail him.

2172
02:22:40,297 --> 02:22:43,130
May he respect
democratic institutions,

2173
02:22:43,297 --> 02:22:47,927
develop necessary moral,
human and civic qualities,

2174
02:22:48,097 --> 02:22:51,055
so that when he comes of age,
he may become...

2175
02:22:53,497 --> 02:22:56,853
a citizen with ideals
of brotherhood, understanding,

2176
02:22:57,097 --> 02:23:00,806
respect for freedom
and solidarity for his fellow men.

2177
02:23:05,497 --> 02:23:06,850
Gentlemen,

2178
02:23:07,417 --> 02:23:09,806
today we have launched an offensive

2179
02:23:10,417 --> 02:23:13,170
against Forts lssy and Vanves.

2180
02:23:13,417 --> 02:23:16,056
Both must be neutralized

2181
02:23:17,017 --> 02:23:21,374
for us to begin the siege
from the other side of the Seine.

2182
02:23:23,017 --> 02:23:26,976
if the Fort lssy doesn't fall
at the start of the offensive,

2183
02:23:27,217 --> 02:23:30,334
the risk,
because of its dominating position,

2184
02:23:31,417 --> 02:23:34,534
is that it may rake the besiegers.

2185
02:23:36,217 --> 02:23:39,687
The Fort Vanves
must also be silenced,

2186
02:23:39,816 --> 02:23:43,206
as it can bring artillery support
to its neighbour.

2187
02:23:45,816 --> 02:23:48,489
Once the two forts are neutralized,

2188
02:23:50,017 --> 02:23:53,976
the main attack
shall aim for the south-west angle

2189
02:23:54,217 --> 02:23:56,014
of the defence line

2190
02:23:56,617 --> 02:24:01,247
at the Point du Jour,
where the wall is weakest.

2191
02:24:03,217 --> 02:24:04,855
Gentlemen of the press?

2192
02:24:09,816 --> 02:24:14,087
Is it true that you plan
to bombard Paris?

2193
02:24:14,137 --> 02:24:15,496
No sir, absolutely not.

2194
02:24:15,816 --> 02:24:17,051
It is a bombardment?

2195
02:24:17,101 --> 02:24:20,373
No sir, the artillery
has never bombarded Paris.

2196
02:24:20,617 --> 02:24:22,608
It has simply fired a few shells!

2197
02:24:24,816 --> 02:24:27,376
Anyhow, the situation is simple.

2198
02:24:28,417 --> 02:24:32,649
I am currently working
with a private corps of engineers

2199
02:24:33,816 --> 02:24:37,331
who are setting up
a battery on the hill,

2200
02:24:38,017 --> 02:24:40,167
to reduce Fort lssy to silence.

2201
02:24:41,017 --> 02:24:44,771
So that our troops may enter
through the Point du Jour.

2202
02:24:46,417 --> 02:24:49,295
I created the Paris ramparts,

2203
02:24:49,417 --> 02:24:52,011
I should know how to destroy them.

2204
02:24:56,017 --> 02:24:58,167
We have Mr. Hoffman,
assistant

2205
02:24:58,417 --> 02:25:03,252
to the Plenipotentiary Minister
for the USA in Paris, on the line.

2206
02:25:04,417 --> 02:25:08,615
The US legation
is the only foreign representation

2207
02:25:08,617 --> 02:25:12,576
in Paris, not with the government
in Versailles.

2208
02:25:13,417 --> 02:25:17,774
Mr. Hoffman, can you explain
your country's position?

2209
02:25:18,816 --> 02:25:22,411
<i>Yes, Minister Washburne believes</i>

2210
02:25:22,417 --> 02:25:26,296
<i>that our interests</i>
<i>would be better served</i>

2211
02:25:27,217 --> 02:25:29,014
<i>by staying in Paris.</i>

2212
02:25:29,017 --> 02:25:31,895
<i>So we'll remain here</i>
<i>despite the danger.</i>

2213
02:25:32,017 --> 02:25:34,372
But do you truly sense danger?

2214
02:25:38,017 --> 02:25:42,169
<i>The legation was hit by shrapnel</i>
<i>20 feet from my office.</i>

2215
02:25:43,537 --> 02:25:45,573
<i>Yesterday,</i>
<i>according to the Minister,</i>

2216
02:25:45,937 --> 02:25:48,895
<i>the Arc de Triomphe</i>
<i>was hit 27 times.</i>

2217
02:25:48,937 --> 02:25:51,929
<i>Have there been many casualties?</i>

2218
02:25:51,937 --> 02:25:55,691
<i>Yes, I believe so, but</i>
<i>I don't have any reliable figures.</i>

2219
02:25:56,137 --> 02:25:59,493
<i>There are casualties</i>
<i>among the civilians.</i>

2220
02:26:00,337 --> 02:26:03,010
<i>Just yesterday</i>
<i>a 70 year-old lady</i>

2221
02:26:03,337 --> 02:26:07,569
<i>lost both her legs due to shell fire</i>
<i>at the entrance of a church.</i>

2222
02:26:21,937 --> 02:26:24,329
<i>Even if one cannot predict</i>
<i>the outcome</i>

2223
02:26:24,379 --> 02:26:27,170
<i>of the unhappy events unfolding...</i>

2224
02:26:28,537 --> 02:26:32,655
<i>we may hope</i>
<i>that individuals won't suffer</i>

2225
02:26:32,736 --> 02:26:36,251
<i>from the excesses of the looters</i>

2226
02:26:36,337 --> 02:26:39,010
<i>which the Commune</i>
<i>carries in its wake,</i>

2227
02:26:39,937 --> 02:26:43,247
<i>because they're too busy</i>
<i>fighting at the front.</i>

2228
02:26:44,736 --> 02:26:47,129
<i>The arrests of some clergy</i>

2229
02:26:47,179 --> 02:26:50,573
<i>and the looting of a few coffers</i>

2230
02:26:51,337 --> 02:26:55,216
<i>seem to quench their thirst.</i>

2231
02:26:57,937 --> 02:27:02,692
<i>Mr. De Gobineau had to abandon</i>
<i>his flat on Josephine St.,</i>

2232
02:27:03,337 --> 02:27:05,248
<i>shells were falling there.</i>

2233
02:27:19,537 --> 02:27:22,176
Paris is undergoing
a real revolution.

2234
02:27:22,537 --> 02:27:25,449
Can you tell us what's happening
in Algeria?

2235
02:27:27,217 --> 02:27:29,936
Let's be honest here!

2236
02:27:32,617 --> 02:27:36,207
Since the French army arrived

2237
02:27:36,257 --> 02:27:40,972
in Algeria in 1830,
their only aim has been

2238
02:27:41,017 --> 02:27:43,326
to plunder the country's wealth.

2239
02:27:43,417 --> 02:27:44,486
It's true!

2240
02:27:45,217 --> 02:27:49,972
It began
with confiscation of properties,

2241
02:27:50,017 --> 02:27:53,612
and dispossession of land,
and ended with deprival of rights.

2242
02:27:54,217 --> 02:27:58,768
The Algerian citizen
is reduced to slavery.

2243
02:27:59,617 --> 02:28:01,494
The loss of his identity!

2244
02:28:03,816 --> 02:28:07,775
What can people do?
Everything's been taken from them.

2245
02:28:09,816 --> 02:28:11,693
He was over there...

2246
02:28:12,816 --> 02:28:14,613
He just returned from Algeria.

2247
02:28:21,217 --> 02:28:23,936
People were being killed there,
massacred.

2248
02:28:26,017 --> 02:28:30,408
They were shelling everywhere.
They broke into homes.

2249
02:28:32,617 --> 02:28:37,372
He says that the repression
was terrible.

2250
02:28:38,617 --> 02:28:41,973
He confirms what's just been said

2251
02:28:42,217 --> 02:28:44,970
about the dispossession
of the land...

2252
02:28:46,417 --> 02:28:49,090
and the repression.

2253
02:28:51,217 --> 02:28:52,366
He fled.

2254
02:28:52,417 --> 02:28:53,736
He managed to flee?

2255
02:28:54,217 --> 02:28:56,208
Yes, but it wasn't easy.

2256
02:29:05,017 --> 02:29:08,896
The uprising has spread.
From east to west.

2257
02:29:09,217 --> 02:29:11,626
Especially in the east because...

2258
02:29:11,676 --> 02:29:15,292
But our comrade is saying
the repression is ruthless.

2259
02:29:15,816 --> 02:29:18,410
Villages being burned.

2260
02:29:19,417 --> 02:29:21,294
Over there for example...

2261
02:29:21,816 --> 02:29:23,966
His brother had his land stolen.

2262
02:29:30,816 --> 02:29:34,429
People are being killed,
we must react.

2263
02:29:34,479 --> 02:29:38,410
My family for example, they've
been merchants for centuries.

2264
02:29:39,816 --> 02:29:42,967
They stole their land
and their property.

2265
02:29:43,417 --> 02:29:46,489
Do you think that's normal?
We must resist...

2266
02:29:47,017 --> 02:29:49,292
this injustice.

2267
02:30:01,417 --> 02:30:05,205
The land is no longer ours,
but the wheat is.

2268
02:30:05,617 --> 02:30:10,452
The bread you eat
comes from our wheat.

2269
02:30:17,017 --> 02:30:20,373
I've been travelling
around the world for years.

2270
02:30:20,617 --> 02:30:23,370
I went to poor countries,
Algeria, Africa.

2271
02:30:23,617 --> 02:30:26,336
I saw lands
plundered by colonization.

2272
02:30:26,617 --> 02:30:30,769
How they plunder people and culture
in those countries.

2273
02:30:31,417 --> 02:30:35,968
And today? Money circulates
and rules the world.

2274
02:30:36,816 --> 02:30:38,010
Goods circulate.

2275
02:30:38,617 --> 02:30:42,212
But the people from poor countries
are denied entry.

2276
02:30:42,217 --> 02:30:43,889
"They tell them:
"Stop, no entry."

2277
02:30:44,017 --> 02:30:46,212
"We'll rob you,
but you can't come in."

2278
02:30:46,417 --> 02:30:49,136
- That's true!
- We must fight against that.

2279
02:30:49,417 --> 02:30:54,093
They deny our right to our culture,
they want to wipe it out.

2280
02:30:56,617 --> 02:30:58,175
On March 1 8, 1 996,

2281
02:30:58,417 --> 02:31:01,428
<i>"350 "illegal aliens"</i>
from a Montreuil hostel"

2282
02:31:01,478 --> 02:31:05,330
occupy St. -Ambroise Church
to denounce the state's refusal

2283
02:31:05,617 --> 02:31:08,893
to regularize
their administrative situation.

2284
02:31:09,217 --> 02:31:13,369
Mgr Lustiger, Archbishop of Paris,
visits the occupants,

2285
02:31:13,417 --> 02:31:17,649
"to voice his "solicitude"
and the "mercy" of his Church."

2286
02:31:20,736 --> 02:31:23,296
The next day,
the religious authorities

2287
02:31:23,736 --> 02:31:26,730
ask the Home Office to eject them.

2288
02:31:26,780 --> 02:31:30,615
They justify lifting
the inviolability of holy places,

2289
02:31:30,937 --> 02:31:35,328
on the excuse of a foreign cult
practising in the Church.

2290
02:31:39,576 --> 02:31:43,791
March 24, state security
police invade the building

2291
02:31:43,841 --> 02:31:47,850
with a violence and force
usually reserved for hijackings.

2292
02:31:47,976 --> 02:31:51,446
Men, women and children
are brutally evacuated.

2293
02:31:51,576 --> 02:31:56,331
"A victory for terminology: the media
now speak of the "paper-less"."

2294
02:32:03,697 --> 02:32:06,689
Battalion, on my command.
Attention!

2295
02:32:07,896 --> 02:32:11,286
There's a preparatory
and an executory command.

2296
02:32:11,497 --> 02:32:15,376
A preparatory command
prepares for what's next. At ease!

2297
02:32:19,297 --> 02:32:20,332
Attention!

2298
02:32:24,697 --> 02:32:27,495
Citizens, hello.
It is the 11 th of April,

2299
02:32:27,697 --> 02:32:31,366
a new National Guard Battalion
leaves for the front.

2300
02:32:31,416 --> 02:32:33,652
We remind you of the headlines:

2301
02:32:34,297 --> 02:32:37,733
Thiers attacks Paris,
shells hit the Arc de Triomphe,

2302
02:32:37,896 --> 02:32:39,687
but troop morale is good.

2303
02:32:39,737 --> 02:32:43,770
We now speak with Agnes Noiret,
whom we met a few days ago.

2304
02:32:43,896 --> 02:32:47,605
It's hard for us to cover
both the events, the interviews,

2305
02:32:48,097 --> 02:32:52,693
and keep you informed
of decisions at the Town Hall.

2306
02:32:52,896 --> 02:32:55,012
Your husband's still at the front?

2307
02:32:55,297 --> 02:32:57,253
- For 3 days.
- You know where?

2308
02:32:57,697 --> 02:33:02,373
No, I have no news at all.
I'm really worried.

2309
02:33:02,497 --> 02:33:05,489
All I know is there are many dead.

2310
02:33:06,097 --> 02:33:09,533
I must try to find out...

2311
02:33:09,697 --> 02:33:12,165
How will you do this?

2312
02:33:12,697 --> 02:33:15,495
I was told to go to the Legion.

2313
02:33:16,297 --> 02:33:19,846
The children must be told something.

2314
02:33:21,097 --> 02:33:23,247
It's so hard.

2315
02:33:23,497 --> 02:33:24,850
Thank you. Good luck!

2316
02:33:25,896 --> 02:33:30,048
To counter unceasing rumours
of defeat and panic,

2317
02:33:30,097 --> 02:33:34,351
the Commune has banned
Versailles oriented newspapers

2318
02:33:34,401 --> 02:33:37,733
advocating private property
and social hierarchy.

2319
02:33:37,896 --> 02:33:41,445
The reactionary press
slanders the Commune.

2320
02:33:42,097 --> 02:33:45,453
That's why information such as ours
is so important.

2321
02:33:45,697 --> 02:33:49,310
Journalists query the bannings,

2322
02:33:49,360 --> 02:33:51,094
"Cri du Peuple":"

2323
02:33:51,097 --> 02:33:54,726
"We can resort to common law
for liars and agitators,"

2324
02:33:55,297 --> 02:33:58,308
"but we demand
absolute liberty of the press."

2325
02:33:58,358 --> 02:33:59,696
"Pere Duchene":"

2326
02:34:00,097 --> 02:34:04,328
"The revolution is solid enough
to let our foes write against it."

2327
02:34:04,378 --> 02:34:08,654
"Freedom for all, including our
enemies, will prove our strength."

2328
02:34:11,137 --> 02:34:12,809
On the pretext of war,

2329
02:34:12,937 --> 02:34:14,689
censorship will shut down

2330
02:34:14,736 --> 02:34:17,330
"not only
30 "reactionary" newspapers,"

2331
02:34:17,736 --> 02:34:20,967
but also certain
critical pro-Commune papers,

2332
02:34:21,337 --> 02:34:24,647
"such as Jean-Baptiste Milliere's
"La Commune"."

2333
02:34:29,736 --> 02:34:31,328
Mark time.

2334
02:34:31,896 --> 02:34:32,851
March!

2335
02:34:35,497 --> 02:34:41,049
<i>We whose lamps are lit</i>
<i>With the crowing of the cock</i>

2336
02:34:42,097 --> 02:34:47,774
<i>We whose poverty</i>
<i>Drags us to the anvil before dawn</i>

2337
02:34:48,097 --> 02:34:54,047
<i>We who struggle endlessly</i>
<i>With our entire being</i>

2338
02:34:54,697 --> 02:35:00,533
<i>With no shelter</i>
<i>From the cold and old age</i>

2339
02:35:01,297 --> 02:35:05,734
<i>Let us love each other</i>
<i>And if we may, unite</i>

2340
02:35:06,097 --> 02:35:09,407
<i>To share a drink</i>

2341
02:35:09,697 --> 02:35:13,736
<i>Whether the cannon</i>
<i>ls silent or roaring</i>

2342
02:35:13,896 --> 02:35:15,852
<i>Let us drink!</i>

2343
02:35:18,097 --> 02:35:19,849
<i>Let us drink!</i>

2344
02:35:19,896 --> 02:35:23,286
<i>To universal independence!</i>

2345
02:35:25,896 --> 02:35:30,333
<i>Let us love each other</i>
<i>And if we may, unite</i>

2346
02:35:30,697 --> 02:35:34,007
<i>To share a drink</i>

2347
02:35:34,297 --> 02:35:37,812
<i>Whether the cannon</i>
<i>ls silent or roaring...</i>

2348
02:35:46,896 --> 02:35:47,806
Listen!

2349
02:35:52,896 --> 02:35:56,127
I wish to announce the birth
of the Women's Union

2350
02:35:56,497 --> 02:35:59,489
for the Defence of Paris
and Care for the Wounded,

2351
02:36:00,097 --> 02:36:03,646
under the presidency
of citizen Elisabeth Dmitrieff.

2352
02:36:04,896 --> 02:36:09,606
The aim of the Women's Union is
to rally the working women of Paris,

2353
02:36:09,697 --> 02:36:13,133
to unite in support of the Commune

2354
02:36:13,297 --> 02:36:15,811
in its struggle
against all tyrannies.

2355
02:36:16,297 --> 02:36:17,810
Long live the Commune!

2356
02:36:18,097 --> 02:36:19,887
We must mobilize quickly

2357
02:36:19,937 --> 02:36:22,907
because Paris and the Homeland
are in danger.

2358
02:36:22,957 --> 02:36:26,172
It's not foreigners
invading France. No.

2359
02:36:26,497 --> 02:36:29,250
The French are slaying
people and liberty!

2360
02:36:29,497 --> 02:36:32,170
They are the privileged,

2361
02:36:32,497 --> 02:36:35,807
all those who profit
from our hunger, our struggle,

2362
02:36:36,097 --> 02:36:38,452
our sweat, our misery.

2363
02:36:38,497 --> 02:36:40,965
We want no more masters
and exploiters,

2364
02:36:41,497 --> 02:36:44,933
but government for the people
and well-being for all.

2365
02:36:45,697 --> 02:36:48,689
We want work, to profit from it,

2366
02:36:48,697 --> 02:36:51,257
and become free human beings.

2367
02:36:52,297 --> 02:36:55,687
Citizens, we must act fast.

2368
02:36:55,896 --> 02:36:57,295
We must get organized

2369
02:36:57,697 --> 02:37:01,895
to help our husbands, sons
and brothers who have left to fight,

2370
02:37:01,896 --> 02:37:04,456
but we must also
protect the Commune

2371
02:37:04,896 --> 02:37:07,968
and end the slavery
we've endured for so long.

2372
02:37:09,697 --> 02:37:10,846
Long live freedom!

2373
02:37:10,896 --> 02:37:15,651
The Commune doesn't depend only
on those at the Town Hall,

2374
02:37:15,697 --> 02:37:17,289
but also on us,

2375
02:37:17,497 --> 02:37:22,048
on our will to build a world
and a future that belong to us.

2376
02:37:28,896 --> 02:37:33,128
Each District must have
its own local committee.

2377
02:37:33,697 --> 02:37:37,736
I invite you to form the Women's
Union of the 11 th District.

2378
02:37:43,896 --> 02:37:47,206
The Town Hall
should be giving us a room soon.

2379
02:37:48,697 --> 02:37:53,168
The next meeting place and date
will be posted by tomorrow.

2380
02:38:01,537 --> 02:38:03,368
I'd like to see the Legion officers.

2381
02:38:03,937 --> 02:38:04,650
What for?

2382
02:38:04,700 --> 02:38:09,088
I'm seeking news of my husband
who's in the National Guard.

2383
02:38:09,337 --> 02:38:10,975
The Guard? Where exactly?

2384
02:38:11,137 --> 02:38:12,809
The 66th Battalion.

2385
02:38:13,537 --> 02:38:14,526
I'll go ask.

2386
02:38:21,337 --> 02:38:24,331
A lady wants information about
her husband who's at the front.

2387
02:38:24,381 --> 02:38:25,770
Fine, tell her to wait.

2388
02:38:26,137 --> 02:38:29,686
I come from Neuilly bridge,
we've been holding for days.

2389
02:38:29,736 --> 02:38:33,928
I sent couriers for reinforcements:
no reply. What's going on?

2390
02:38:33,978 --> 02:38:37,373
Captain,
<i>we receive 50 to 60 couriers a day,</i>

2391
02:38:37,537 --> 02:38:40,131
and we've got no time to answer.
Just wait!

2392
02:38:40,537 --> 02:38:42,812
The men are demoralized.
We're isolated.

2393
02:38:42,937 --> 02:38:45,690
if your men didn't take orders

2394
02:38:45,937 --> 02:38:48,849
from the Town Hall,
without our permission...

2395
02:38:48,937 --> 02:38:51,451
Orders are here, we're in charge.

2396
02:38:53,137 --> 02:38:55,332
I need men in good shape, equipped.

2397
02:38:55,537 --> 02:38:58,131
You'll get
the 138th Battalion tomorrow.

2398
02:38:58,537 --> 02:39:01,256
Unless the Sub-Committee
use it for parade.

2399
02:39:01,537 --> 02:39:03,812
You want efficiency? You'll get it.

2400
02:39:03,937 --> 02:39:06,610
General Cluseret
gave very precise instructions.

2401
02:39:06,937 --> 02:39:11,248
From now on, all Battalion captains
must arrest draft dodgers.

2402
02:39:11,298 --> 02:39:13,412
Start right now.

2403
02:39:13,537 --> 02:39:16,734
Here's an order for Berco,
rue Folie-Mericourt.

2404
02:39:20,137 --> 02:39:21,934
Hope for support like this?

2405
02:39:21,937 --> 02:39:24,770
You'll keep order in your Battalion.

2406
02:39:24,937 --> 02:39:28,566
We'll establish a disciplinary
committee. Tell the men

2407
02:39:29,137 --> 02:39:32,573
who miss roll-call
there'll be no pay. Dismissed!

2408
02:39:32,736 --> 02:39:35,455
People won't like the Commune
this way!

2409
02:39:35,736 --> 02:39:37,294
Let the citizen in.

2410
02:39:37,537 --> 02:39:39,175
Citizens, I need 3 guards

2411
02:39:39,337 --> 02:39:43,296
to fetch a guy called Lucien Berco,
34, Folie-Mericourt.

2412
02:39:49,537 --> 02:39:52,051
I'm looking for my husband.

2413
02:39:52,537 --> 02:39:55,893
He's in the 66th Battalion.

2414
02:39:56,736 --> 02:39:58,408
What company?

2415
02:39:59,137 --> 02:40:00,456
D Company.

2416
02:40:00,937 --> 02:40:03,087
- What Battalion?
- 66th.

2417
02:40:03,337 --> 02:40:06,010
- Your husband's name?
- Jean Lebert.

2418
02:40:06,337 --> 02:40:07,975
At which front?

2419
02:40:08,736 --> 02:40:10,028
I don't know.

2420
02:40:10,078 --> 02:40:12,656
In Asnieres. I thinks he's there.

2421
02:40:12,937 --> 02:40:14,973
- Let's see, Lebel...
- Lebert.

2422
02:40:15,337 --> 02:40:16,690
I think it's Asnieres.

2423
02:40:23,736 --> 02:40:27,251
<i>On a proposal by citizen Jourde,</i>
<i>finance Delegate:</i>

2424
02:40:27,337 --> 02:40:30,693
<i>To widows, married or not,</i>
<i>of Guards killed in action</i>

2425
02:40:30,937 --> 02:40:34,486
<i>for the people's defence,</i>
<i>a 600 franc pension</i>

2426
02:40:34,537 --> 02:40:38,576
<i>and 375 francs for the children,</i>
<i>legitimate or not,</i>

2427
02:40:38,736 --> 02:40:42,490
<i>after an enquiry</i>
<i>establishing these rights.</i>

2428
02:40:42,937 --> 02:40:46,691
<i>I have here a declaration</i>
<i>from a group of women:</i>

2429
02:40:47,137 --> 02:40:50,211
<i>"The gauntlet is down,</i>
<i>we must conquer or die."</i>

2430
02:40:50,261 --> 02:40:54,608
<i>"Let those who say, 'what good is</i>
<i>victory if I lose those I love', "</i>

2431
02:40:54,937 --> 02:40:58,691
<i>"be persuaded that the only way</i>
<i>to save those you love, "</i>

2432
02:40:59,137 --> 02:41:01,492
<i>"is to take part in the struggle."</i>

2433
02:41:01,537 --> 02:41:04,893
<i>The Commune makes an appeal</i>
<i>on behalf of schools.</i>

2434
02:41:05,137 --> 02:41:08,749
<i>All interested citizens are invited</i>
<i>to present themselves,</i>

2435
02:41:08,799 --> 02:41:13,048
<i>with documents, at the Town Hall</i>
<i>Education Commission.</i>

2436
02:41:16,177 --> 02:41:18,930
Two days after the next scene,

2437
02:41:19,177 --> 02:41:23,250
Agnes Noiret will find her husband,
dead, at an ambulance post.

2438
02:41:23,377 --> 02:41:28,087
She will receive a widow's pension
for herself and her children,

2439
02:41:28,177 --> 02:41:31,249
as decreed by the Commune
on April 11.

2440
02:41:34,656 --> 02:41:37,534
We're back from the Legion,
they didn't know.

2441
02:41:37,537 --> 02:41:40,688
- No news?
- I said he left days ago.

2442
02:41:42,337 --> 02:41:44,848
I could come with you
to the Sub-Committee...

2443
02:41:44,898 --> 02:41:48,126
if that's OK with you?

2444
02:41:50,137 --> 02:41:53,131
- Can you take the kids?
- Leave them with me.

2445
02:41:53,181 --> 02:41:55,446
Shall we go? I know where it is.

2446
02:41:55,537 --> 02:41:57,653
Kids, you stay with me.

2447
02:42:02,137 --> 02:42:03,172
Hello, citizens.

2448
02:42:05,736 --> 02:42:08,455
We're looking
for citizen Lucien Berco.

2449
02:42:08,736 --> 02:42:12,046
- Don't know him.
- I was told he lives here, no?

2450
02:42:12,937 --> 02:42:13,813
Fair-haired?

2451
02:42:14,137 --> 02:42:17,095
34, Folie-Mericourt.
No Berco?

2452
02:42:17,736 --> 02:42:21,729
Over there,
in the house across the street.

2453
02:42:21,937 --> 02:42:23,256
On the ground floor.

2454
02:42:23,736 --> 02:42:26,146
And you, citizen Theron, watch out.

2455
02:42:26,196 --> 02:42:29,288
You're not with us yet,
it'll be your turn soon.

2456
02:42:36,576 --> 02:42:40,615
E. Theron, the jeweller,
will be taken for questioning,

2457
02:42:40,777 --> 02:42:45,567
but released with the advance
of the Versailles army.

2458
02:42:47,736 --> 02:42:51,809
The Therons will shelter a Communard
during the Bloody Week.

2459
02:42:51,937 --> 02:42:54,497
They will be denounced
by a neighbour,

2460
02:42:54,937 --> 02:42:58,168
and executed
by a Government firing squad.

2461
02:43:01,537 --> 02:43:03,892
This is war, we must stick together!

2462
02:43:12,937 --> 02:43:15,531
Citizen Berco, come out of there!

2463
02:43:18,937 --> 02:43:20,529
We know you're there!

2464
02:43:23,137 --> 02:43:24,490
Shall we try the other door?

2465
02:43:28,537 --> 02:43:31,210
- What is it?
- It's for the Sub-Committee.

2466
02:43:31,537 --> 02:43:32,771
- Who?
- Sub-Committee.

2467
02:43:32,821 --> 02:43:34,135
And who are you?

2468
02:43:36,937 --> 02:43:39,167
- 11 th Legion officers.
- You blind?

2469
02:43:45,937 --> 02:43:48,371
It's the Legion,
for the Sub-Committee...

2470
02:43:48,937 --> 02:43:50,336
What's going on here?

2471
02:43:51,337 --> 02:43:53,769
- Leave me alone!
- What's she done?

2472
02:43:53,819 --> 02:43:57,285
I'm the law here,
I ask the questions. Let us through.

2473
02:44:01,057 --> 02:44:04,367
The Paris police fled Paris
after the insurrection,

2474
02:44:04,656 --> 02:44:08,854
often leaving their wives behind
to take care of the furniture.

2475
02:44:08,857 --> 02:44:11,530
This is the case
for Leontine Rombert,

2476
02:44:11,857 --> 02:44:16,328
arrested with other citizens
for secret dealings with the enemy.

2477
02:44:18,097 --> 02:44:20,975
End of part 1