David Seymour Popular Front leaders gathered together to celebrate the anniversary of the 1871 Paris Commune at the Mur des Fédérés (Communard’s Wall), an anti-fascist memorial to the defenders of the Commune, i (...)
n the Père Lachaise cemetery. From left to right: Julien Racamond (moustache), Leon Blum (striped tie, pince-nez), Vincent Auriol (partly hidden by Blum), Maurice Thorez (dark tie, leaning forward), Andre Marty (striped shirt, moustache), Jean Richard Moch (partly hidden, dark hair, glasses), Delepine (bearded), Madame Blum, and Marcel Cachin (extreme bottom left). Accompanying them were the last surviving defenders of the Commune and a crowd of over 200,000 people, including both Socialists and Communists. Paris, France. May 19, 1935. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Portraits of writers and artists whose work inspired the Paris Commune of 1871, painted by well-known contemporary artists such as Taslitzky and Gruber, held up during a demonstration in memory of (...)
those killed during the Commune. Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris, France. May 24, 1936. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour Members of the group ‘Mars’ atop a small chapel in the Père Lachaise cemetery during a demonstration in memory of those who were killed in the 1871 Paris Commune. From left: Charles Dinerstein, Sim (...)
on Lichtenstein, Sarah Rochvarger, Francis Lemarque, Henri Fush and Michel Rochvarger. Paris, France. May, 1934. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour A large crowd paying tribute to the French writer Henri Barbusse at his funeral. Barbusse was both a veteran soldier of the First World War, the author of ‘Under Fire’ (Le Feu) and an intellectual (...)
committed to anti-fascism. Paris, France. September 7, 1935. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos
David Seymour From left to right: French writers Paul Nizan, Martin-Chauffier and Andre Wumser at a demonstration in memory of those killed during the 1871 Paris Commune at the Mur des Fédérés (Communard’s Wall) (...)
, an anti-fascist memorial to the defenders of the Commune. Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris, France. May 24, 1936. © David Seymour | Magnum Photos