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I really like the view of Paris you get from the top of Butte Montmartre. The Basilica Sacre Couer was built there to dominate the skyline & to “atone” for the “sins of the Commune” by the French bourgeois state that massacred thousands of Parisian citizens in the process of retaking their city from them in 1871. When I wrote this song I thought the Square Louise Michel was just the little space at th3 foot of the Butte, where there’s a children’s playground & a lovely old carousel - but actually, the square goes all the way up the hill, & includes the grass & the flower beds & the steps that people like to sit on. Louise Michel is one of those inspirational individuals who always chose the right side of history, even when it looked like being the losing side. She was initially a teacher, she started her own school, couldn’t abide cruelty, used progressive education strategies, & then fought for the Commune, got exiled to New Caledonia where she promptly started a school for indigenous children, & she kept on opening schools & challenging the state for the rest of her life.

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from 8 songs about anarchism, released April 7, 2023

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