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The Paris Commune of 1871 and the Semaine sanglante viewed from the discussions about the death toll in the Semaine sanglante

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2021, (45), pp.5~44
  • DOI : 10.51786/RCHF.2021.08.45.5
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : July 30, 2021
  • Accepted : August 18, 2021
  • Published : August 31, 2021

Jae-Youl Hyun 1

1한국해양대학교

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ABSTRACT

2021 is 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune of 1871, and so I review the discussions about the death toll of the Semaine sanglante and its significance, to which I have not paid attention proper so far. Robert Tombs, the British historian of the Paris Commune, has suggested the number of the persons killed during the Semaine sanglante to be about 5,000-7,000 by finding and analysing tightly the new relevant sources. Some historians has remarked the insufficiencies of his estimation suggesting the necessity of its supplements, but no article that would refute completely it has published. However, it is difficult for me to accept his attempts to give the distinct meanings from the Paris Commune to the Semaine sanglante. Nevertheless, I become realized that the Commune needs to be set in the context of ‘Civil war’ by reviewing these discussions.

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