来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1871年后的法国第2集第2集》

since the consolidation of territorial monarchies

法国统一了各地方君主国以来
in the fifteenth century,

它在欧洲前所未有的强大
the state growing in power with absolutism,

专制政权增长了它的权力
growing in power with the revolution with Napoleon,

拿破仑的革命增长了它的权力
growing in power with unification of national states.

主权国家的统一增长了它的权力
The state could strike back with unparalleled savagery

但它竟也可以以空前野蛮的步伐倒退
against those people who got in the way,

就为了对抗那些阻碍了他们的人们
and that's what happened at the commune,

这就是在公社时期所发生的
in the Paris Commune.

巴黎公社时期
How many people died?

死了多少人
Minimum estimate 15,000, probably closer to 25,000.

最少估计一万五千很可能接近两万五
Yet, when they did the census of 1872 in Paris alone

然而一八七二年仅仅巴黎的人口普查