edwarddespard:The Rue Transnonain massacre, as depicted by Daumier.Hard on the heals of popular upri
edwarddespard:The Rue Transnonain massacre, as depicted by Daumier.Hard on the heals of popular uprisings in Lyon and in response to anti-Republican measures by Thiers, in April 1834 another emeute broke out in Paris. Following an exchange of fire (from which building has never with certainty been determined) and the death of an officer, the National Guard attacked a building at 12 Rue Transnonain and slaughtered most of the helpless occupants. According to reports, the order “balayer la vermine” was given to the Guards.No one was ever convicted for the slaughter, and one of the dead - a young man with Republican sympathies who was killed in the incident - was accused, in spite of lack of evidence and circumstances that argue for his innocence, of being one who killed the officer. -- source link
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