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8.8- The Bloody Week

Revolutions

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Versailles - The Last Thing Tierre Wanted

On May 20 18 71, 200 thousand soldiers mustered in and around versailles. Tierre had signed a final peace treaty with the german empire on may tenth. The last thing tierre wanted was for the germans to start marching west again. A delegation of the paris mayors tried to work out a deal to halt any unnecessary bloodshed. Buttierre said flat out, i am not listening to this. And nor, frankly, would the commune arts have listened because they wanted more an autonomous self government. They wanted the social revolution. So it would be guns at dawn.

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