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Sarah Bernhardt

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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The Lady of the Lamp

Theatre was thought to be a very attractive target for the germans. Sara dispersed her patients all over the city because it was no longer safe. She even rented a large apartment and moved some of the soldiers to that so she could take care of them. The working class, who had suffered greatly both before and during the war, staged an insurgency in paris. For two months, they laid waste the city,. executed enemies, set fire to public buildings, took hostages, setting bombs. This was the communards, not the cool eighties band that sang, don't leave me this way. Not them. During the suppression of the communard, 18 thousand parisians were killed

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