Paris in Ruins by Sebastian Smee

Author:Sebastian Smee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2024-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

DIVISIONS WERE DEEPENING not only at the governmental level but inside the Morisot home on the Rue Franklin. The prospect of Germans parading through Paris sent alarm bells through their neighborhood, since Passy was on the route from Versailles to Paris. People came out on the streets to protest the treaty. “Our Passy, usually so quiet, was animated,” wrote Berthe. “The Place de la Mairie and the main street were filled with noisy crowds.” No one knew when the Germans would come—only that they would—and the uncertainty drove everyone to distraction.

The siege was over, but the Morisots were once again going to bed thinking about occupation, civic breakdown, and the possibilities of violence and death. “Each day brings us a new sorrow, a new humiliation,” wrote Berthe in dismay. “The French people are so frivolous that they will promptly forget these sad events, but I am brokenhearted.” Describing the local uproar in a letter to Edma, Cornélie also gave a vivid account of the lynching of Vincenzoni, an act she described as “odious and revolting in the last degree.

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