The Communards beyond Paris.
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The Commune in Limoges.
(English translation on the site).“Limousin, the archetype of an unchanging peasant land, experienced the Commune of 1871 intensely. We do not know it. The Limousin workers paid a heavy price. We do not count the dead on the barricades, nor the shot, nor the imprisoned, nor the deported to New Caledonia and Guyana. We have almost forgotten them.
The Communard uprising of the spring of 1871 has long been treated as a brief convulsion of history, a very Parisian anecdote without consequences, quickly erased by the indifference or hostility of rural France. Recent work has challenged this preconceived idea and it is in this research perspective that this book is set: the Commune is also a Limousin story.”
That actually sounds very interesting: seems there was an earlier book on the subject:
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Oubli%C3%A9s-lHistoire-Limousins-Commune-Paris-1871/30975808480/bdSadly, can’t find anything in English on the subject.
There was also a Commune in Marseilles. Again, my book on that isn’t in English.
The one you link to above is a comic-book version.
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