Affiche Rouge (1871)

The 1871 Affiche Rouge (Red Poster) was a poster hung in January 1871 to popularize the idea of a revolutionary government, or Commune, in Paris, as would later arrive in March with the Paris Commune.[1] Written by Gustave Tridon and Jules Vallès[2] but credited to a group that called itself the Delegation of the Twenty Arrondissements, the poster lambasted governmental indecisiveness and military ineffectiveness, such as lack of fight despite Frenchmen outnumbering the attacking Prussians. The poster was signed by 140 leftist activists. There were no demonstrations alongside the poster, but the government charged its authors with insurrection.[3]

References
  1. Barry, D. (March 25, 1996). Women and Political Insurgency: France in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. ISBN 9780230374362.
  2. Jellinek, Frank (January 4, 2013). The Paris Commune of 1871. ISBN 9781447486626.
  3. Fermer, Douglas (July 12, 2011). France at Bay, 1870–1871: The Struggle for Paris. ISBN 9781844689040.
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