Theatrical terror: attentats and symbolist spectacle.

The Comparatist | May 1, 2005| | Copyright

The 1890s in Paris were a period of intense terrorism. There were more than a dozen bombings in the city between 1892 and 1894, attributed to a score of perpetrators, either identified as or assumed to be anarchists. The period of violent activity, known as "propaganda by the deed," both stoked public hysteria about every shady malingerer on the city streets and sparked popular support for--even idealizations of--the dynamiters in revolt against a corrupt political and social order. Ravachol (Francois Koenigstein), for instance, the first bomb-thrower to meet the fate of the ...

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