Paris and the Commune 1871-78: The Politics of ForgettingDespite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war of 1871; some 20,000 to 35,000 people were killed on the streets of Paris in just the final week of the conflict. Colette Wilson identifies a critical blind spot in French studies and employs new critical approaches to neglected texts, marginalised