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Artists still scorn it as a vulgar pastiche, and the working-class residents of the area resented its being erected as a symbol of penitence for the insurrection of the 1871 Commune — they didn’t feel penitent in the least.
It, too, was toppled, during the 1871 Commune at the instigation of painter Gustave Courbet, who had to pay the crippling cost of having it re-erected two years later.
French radical leftist; Dreyfusard, erstwhile bleeding-heart supporter of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 and exonerated in 1906; Cagoulard (from French wearer of a monk's cowl), a member of a sort of 1930s French Ku Klux Klan; and Communard, an adherent of the Commune of Paris, a group that took over the municipal government of the French capital and played a leading role in the post-revolutionary Reign of Terror.
When he started out in show business, he was something of a lefty, living briefly on a quasisocialist commune in New Jersey, sending money to striking Mexican lettuce pickers, and naming Stalin and Gandhi as his favorite human beings in a survey in 1933.
I fear that, if it meant avoiding widespread economic dislocations, most people would be happy to consummate their desire to commune with plants and animals with a visit to a golf course stocked with a few pandas and eagles.
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