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Alain Dalotel

Born — Died

1943-02-24 — 2020-05-29

Place of birth

Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France

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Alain Dalotel, born on February 24, 1943, in Suresnes, France, and died on May 29, 2020, in Bagnolet, France, at the age of 77, was a French historian specializing in the Paris Commune of 1871. He published numerous books and articles between 1978 and 2006 before ceasing his activities following a stroke. Alain Dalotel led an atypical career as an employee of a pension fund while simultaneously developing an independent academic path, marked by his involvement in the social struggles of the post-1968 era. He was one of the first non-baccalaureate-holding working students at the University of Vincennes, where he prepared a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Jacques Rougerie entitled "O…

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La Commune de Paris 1871 poster
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Mehdi Lallaoui's documentary begins where it all ended, in New Caledonia, with images of the ruins of the penal colony where many Commune insurgents were deported, including Louise Michel. The director thus tracks down all the still visible traces of the insurrectional movement, in the South Pacific but especially in Paris, by following Alain Dalotel, author of numerous works on the Commune (and who died on May 29, 2020 in Bagnolet). He also tracks down all the archives, allowing us to understand, with the means of communication and information of the time (and with a voice-over by Bernard Langlois), what contemporaries experienced between March and May 1871: their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their anger.

La Commune de Paris 1871

2004

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