Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
The writing of history involves not only the search for evidence concerning particular events, but a selection of the evidence which appears to the historian to be most relevant to his task and also the imposition of labels on this evidence, its division into categories, resulting in a neat explanatory pattern being imposed on an otherwise undifferentiated mass of information.
1 e.g. by Jellinek, F., The Paris Commune of 1897 (London, 1937), p. 172.Google Scholar
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3 Published in the Journal Officiel de la République Française of 19 Apr. 1871. B.N. Lc2 3431.
4 See Bourgin, G. and Henriot, G., Procès-verbaux de la Commune de 1871, II (Paris, 1949), 23.Google Scholar
5 Lissagaray, P.-O., History of the Commune of 1871 (London, 1886), p. 243.Google Scholar
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7 Bourgin, and Henriot, , op. cit. I (Paris, 1924), 539.Google Scholar
8 Ibid. I, 543.
9 Ibid. I, 236, decree of 15 Apr.
10 Ibid. I, 241, 16 Apr.
11 Ibid. I, 434, 24 Apr.
12 Ibid, II, 149.
13 Ibid. II, 76–7.
14 Ibid. 11, 352–5 and 367, 12 May.
15 Ibid. 11, 352.
16 cf. the declaration of the Conseil Fédéral of the Paris section of the International and of the Chambre fédérate des sociétés ouvrières in Journal officiel, 28 Mar.
17 In Le Vengeur during March, April and May.
18 Ibid. 26 Apr. 1871.
19 Bourgin and Henriot, op. cit. 1, 94–5.
20 Ibid. I, 439–40.
21 Ibid, II, 413–14.
22 Ibid, II, 425.
23 Ibid. II, 426.
24 Ibid. II, 427.
25 Ibid. I, 374.
26 Ibid. I, 375.
27 Ibid. I, 586.
28 Ibid. II, 26–7.
29 Ibid. II, 402.
30 Consider evidence offered to the ‘ Enquête sur les causes de 1'insurrection du 18 mars 1871 ’ in Archives nationales, Carton C.2876.
31 Molinari, Clubs rouges, passim.
32 Jellinek, Paris Commune, pp. 171, 221.
33 Dubreuilh, L., La Commune (Paris, n.d.), p. 353.Google Scholar
34 Contained in a report of the 4th Conseil de guerre to the Enquê in A.N. C.2876.
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38 Speakers at the ‘ Réunion electorale de la salle de la redoute ” on 3 February 1871, quoted byMolinari, p. 307.
37 Speaker at Réunion de la Vielleuse in Belleville, 2 Feb., Molinari, p. 287.
38 Speaker at the Réunion de la Marseillaise at La Villette, 3 Feb. 1871, in Molinari, p. 292.
39 Ibid. p. 4.
40 Archives Historiques de la Guerre (hereafter A.H.G.), cartons Ly 1–7, and ‘ Le Procès de la Commune devant les Conseils de Guerre: Compte rendu complet des débats ” (Paris, 1870).
41 A.H.G. dossier 6, the 8th Conseil de guerre.
42 Proceedings of 4th Conseil de guerre reported in ‘ Le procès…’, p. 84.
43 Appeal for a pardon in A.N. BB24729 piece no. 3087, S.73.
44 Proceedings of the 4th Conseil de guerre, p. 83.
45 A.H.G. 20th Conseil de guerre, dossier 67, A.H.G. Ly1.
46 A.H.G. 8th Conseil de guerre, dossier 101.
47 A.H.G. Ly1, interrogation of Florent Bartholemy, mason.
48 A.H.G. 20th Conseil de guerre, dossier 64.
49 See e.g. evidence of Alex. Lapradie and Louis Piat in A.H.G. Ly1.
50 e.g. A.H.G. 6th Conseil de guerre, dossier 37 – Jules Mantois, wine merchant.
51 A.H.G. 20th Conseil de guerre, dossier 56 – Louis Paul Guerin.
52 Ibid, dossier 48 - Jean Timonnaire, carpenter.
53 A.H.G. 8th Conseil de guerre, dossier 95 – Francois Quillien, carpenter.
54 ‘ Operations judicaires concernant les femmes. Rapport d'ensemble ’ in A.H.G. Ly7.
55 Quoted by Mason, E. S., The Paris Commune (New York, 1930), p. 282.Google Scholar