“I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any régime except the régime of liberty.”
Communards and Gustave Courbet pose with the statue of Napoléon I from the toppled Vendôme column, Paris March 22 1871.
Contributed by
Juan Pablo Macías