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Genderquake: socialist women and the Paris Commune
Women in our history
Monday 8 March 2021, by Judy Cox
On 11 April 1871, three weeks into the life of the Paris Commune, a poster appeared on the walls of France’s capital: Citizenesses, we know that the present social order bears within itself the seeds of poverty and of the death of all liberty and justice… At this hour, when danger is imminent and the enemy is at the gates of Paris, the entire population must unite to defend the Commune, which stands for the annihilation of all privilege and all inequality.
All women who were prepared to die for the Commune were urged to attend a meeting at 8pm at the Salle Larched, Grand Café des Nations, 74 Rue de Temple. Laundresses, seamstresses, bookbinders and milliners attended and there they established a new organisation, the Union of Women. This Union was a part of the socialist First International, which had been established by Karl Marx and other socialists and trade unioni
The Untold Truth Of Pere Lachaise, The World s Most Visited Cemetery Shutterstock
By Kathy Benjamin/Feb. 8, 2021 12:57 pm EDT/Updated: March 23, 2021 10:23 pm EDT
If you never went through an emo phase, you might think it s weird that people like to visit cemeteries. And sure, some can be sad, uncared for, and small, but there are other cemeteries that are basically a combination art gallery and beautiful park.
Pere Lachaise in Paris might be the most stunning of them all. As the Encyclopedia Britannica notes, it s probably the most visited cemetery in the world (it s impossible to know for sure, since Pere Lachaise, like most cemeteries, doesn t actually count up the people who come there, but the superlative is generally accepted by people who know about these things.)