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| | | Film Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4 | The History Cooperative |
 | | In June 1871, Eugène Pottier, an elected member of the Paris Commune in flight from the convulsive violence that finished off that brief experiment in radical democracy, wrote the words of the "Internationale." His poem, however, sank into obscurity with the exiled Pottier. |
 | | Not until 1888, a year after his death, was it rescued and given new life when set to music by Belgian-born worker Pierre Degeyter. |
 | | Within a quarter century, the song became the anthem of the Left, translated into dozens of languages, the accompaniment of strikes and revolutions: six verses that shook the world. |
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