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Nearly ten thousand people crowded into the Tuileries Palace on Sunday afternoon, May , , for a grand concert bene ting the battle eld hospitals of the revolutionary civil war known as the Paris Commune. Entering through gardens illuminated by red lanterns woven through the trees, attendees arrived in opulent rooms, "upholstered in crimson velvet accented with golden screens." e audience waited to experience the widely advertised extravaganza of "orations, singing, and perhaps dancing" by Paris's top performers, who shared the stage with , musicians.1 Louis Barron, a twenty-four-year-old member of the Commune government, observed that rather than the usual aristocratic spectators, the "crystal chandelier blazing from the ceiling" illuminated a crowd that included working women and men, people "who seemed to say, 'Finally, we are in our house, in our palace! We have driven out the tyrant, and we can now use this place as we please!'"2 Awaiting the performance, the Communard journalist Maxime Vuillaume observed "a long, long table. Hundreds of glasses, bottles . . . mountains of brioche," a rich abundance for all to share.3 Vuillaume felt "a buzz of impatience" run through the crowd

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN