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Let us kill no more. Even murderers and incendrious. Let us kill no more. I'm David Aldoushoga, and those terrifying lines come from the Paris Journal of 1871. Welcome to Journey Through Time.

When we left Paris last time, it was trying to live the dream of the commune. It was trying to govern itself by idealism. But as that quote suggests, David,

the idealism ends in catastrophe. Reality is closing in. And as we pick up the story,

Versailles, the forces of the national government is gathering strength. Bismarck is still

ringing the city of Paris and Paris is

isolated. The government is calling them criminals. The countryside says they're lunatics and inside the

city they're turning on each other. Paranoia is spreading. Suspicion is everywhere and there's

increasingly summary violence.

And so just one example of that paranoia is that during this period,

Auguste Renoir, the painter, was nearly shot as a spy when he was spotted sketching by the Sen.

He's going to go on to be one of France's greatest painters of all time. And he's sitting

there innocently sketching by the river and the Paris guardsmen think he's drawing maps of

defenses and that he's a spy for T.A.'s government and they nearly shoot him. And it was actually

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