Face au 37 rue Vandrezanne, Google Maps
François Gobinot de Villecholle (1816–1906), Ambulance de la Croix Rouge, 1871
Shot in the ambulance
Near 37 Rue Vandrezanne. The crowd has turned its back on the villa at number 37.
The ambulance on Rue Vandrezanne
Several Communards from the 13th arrondissement lived on Rue Vandrezanne, sometimes at the same address, and worked in the same workshops. The proximity of their workplaces, homes and the Club Démocratie et Socialisme at 190 Avenue de Choisy may explain their collective membership of the IWA.
On 25 May, the Versaillais seized an ambulance stationed at 32 Rue Vandrezanne (the nursery that had been there had been moved to No. 42, where it still stands). There they shot federalists, including a doctor — a flagrant violation of international law, similar to what happened at Saint-Sulpice. The Versailles regime’s reign of terror showed no respect for neutrality.
