The "Great Sortie" is a disaster. The army puts the Guard to rout with its artillery fire, many prisoners are executed on the spot, including Communard Generals Duval and Flourens.
The surviving prisoners are brought back to Versailles.
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General Flourens' body is taken to Versailles in a wheelbarrow. Bourgeois ladys poke at his brains with their umbrellas.
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