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Le cloître Saint-Merry (5-6 juin 1832). Histoire d'un cheminement vers l'oubli (1832-1862)

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The bloody fights in cloître Saint-Merry (Paris, June 5th and 6th, 1832) left uncertain marks. They have generally been perceived, by the contemporaries and afterwards, as obscure, embarrassing, absurd or useless. The paper deals with the expressions, uses and traces of this insurrectional moment : characteristics of the fights in Paris' streets, first relations, evaluations and trials, strategies of heroes making or discrediting, brief reappearances, missed opportunities under the Second Republic, and finally the interpretation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.