bricolage
25th November 2009, 12:32
Disclaimer; I'm not defending this view point, I just don't have an answer to it. It would be helpful if people could as such refrain from accusations of revisionst and give serious answers.
Apparently Robert Tombs has conducted a study into the claims that 20/30,000 died in the Bloody Week at the end of the Paris Commune and disputes the number. According to him the figure always leads back to Lissagaray and the Lissagaray figure comes from a question that was asked to an Inspector of the Third Republic (I can't remember the name, something like Boulange but maybe not) who was asked is is possible 20,000 could have died (in the entire time from the Siege of Paris to the Bloody Week) and answered that he wasn't sure but it could be possible. Apparently Tombs has searched through all the cemeteries etc in Paris and come to the conclusion the Bloody Week could have only seen the deaths of 5,000. He also adds that there are no eyewitness accounts of bodied being carried out of the city on carts as is often claimed.
Now I'm not sure and bear in mind this hasn't actually been published yet, I got the information from a lecturer who studied under Tombs and so is in close contact with him.
Where do people here think the figures stands at? Does it matter?
Apparently Robert Tombs has conducted a study into the claims that 20/30,000 died in the Bloody Week at the end of the Paris Commune and disputes the number. According to him the figure always leads back to Lissagaray and the Lissagaray figure comes from a question that was asked to an Inspector of the Third Republic (I can't remember the name, something like Boulange but maybe not) who was asked is is possible 20,000 could have died (in the entire time from the Siege of Paris to the Bloody Week) and answered that he wasn't sure but it could be possible. Apparently Tombs has searched through all the cemeteries etc in Paris and come to the conclusion the Bloody Week could have only seen the deaths of 5,000. He also adds that there are no eyewitness accounts of bodied being carried out of the city on carts as is often claimed.
Now I'm not sure and bear in mind this hasn't actually been published yet, I got the information from a lecturer who studied under Tombs and so is in close contact with him.
Where do people here think the figures stands at? Does it matter?