Talk:Gustave Flourens
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there are three pictures of him here:
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/images/PAR01145.JPG http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/images/PAR00415.JPG http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/images/PAR01016.JPG
Wikipedia in French says he was disarmed and then executed -- not that he died in hand-to-hand combat.
French Wikipedia says, without quoting sources, that:
Partisan de la désastreuse offensive des communards contre Versailles il est tué le 3 avril 1871 à Rueil alors qu'il était désarmé par le capitaine de gendarmerie Desmarets, futur juge de paix à la Garnache en Vendée et protégé du comte de Baudry d'Asson.
In other words, it does not say that he was disarmed and then executed, but that he died when he was being desarmed by Desmarets. Lacking any sources in the immediate moment concerning this, I note that the two versions do not contradict themselves as you say they do, they rather give two different accounts of the same death. I can easily imagine that Desmarets attempted to disarm Flourens, and that because of expected refusal of the latter, this ended up in a fight in which Flourens died. Tazmaniacs
