Trying to find the location of the Communards' Wall during my brief visit to Paris, I came across this article: Truth buried as Paris cemetery sculpture is mistaken for famous wall in which the sculpture is captioned: "Victimes des Révolutions, 1909, by Paul Moreau-Vauthier" and described: "Created by artist Paul Moreau-Vauthier 38 years after the demise of the Commune, the work, entitled Victimes des Révolutions pays tribute to those killed on both sides of such battles – whether revolutionary or enemy."
While the sculpture has been widely mistaken as a memorial to the Communards:
- ... this claim is flatly rejected by the Association of the Friends of the Paris Commune, a group founded by survivors of the Commune. This is France’s oldest labour movement, whose creators helped rally the city to the world’s first rise to power by the working class.
- “This (sculpture) is simply a monument to commemorate this period, but it has nothing at all to do with the authentic Mur des Fédérés (Communards’ Wall),” says the association’s secretary general, Jean-Claude Lieberman.
--Davecampbell (talk) 15:29, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
