Théophile Ferré was a leader of the Paris Commune who was executed by the French government on this day in 1871. Ferré personally authorized the execution of the archbishop of Paris and was the first of 25 Communards to be executed.
Little is known about Ferré's early life, before his participation in the Paris Commune. After Paris was seized by revolutionaries in March 1871, Ferré served on the Commune's Committee of Public Safety, a body given extensive powers to hunt down enemies of the Commune.
On April 5th, the Commune passed a decree that authorized the arrest of any person thought to be loyal to the French government in Versailles, to be held as hostages. Prominent figures arrested included a Catholic priest Georges Darboy and the archbishop of Paris. The Commune hoped to exchange their hostages for Louis-Auguste Blanqui, a revolutionary and honorary President of the Commune, imprisoned by the state.
Following the events of the "Bloody Week", in which the French government summarily executed many suspected Communards, Ferré authorized the execution of several hostages, including Darboy and the archbishop.
After the resistance of the Commune collapsed, Ferré was captured by the army, tried by a military court, and sentenced to death. On November 28th, 1871, he was shot at Satory, an army camp southwest of Versailles. He was the first of twenty-five Communards to be executed for their role in the Paris Commune.
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My bank decided to do overnight .maintenance and my debit card doesn't work. They also lock the nearest ATM at 9 so homeless people can't sleep somewhere warm. I've got more money than normal in the bank and my card gets fucking declined just trying to buy a couple after work beers. And tonight we dealt with a table of 22 fifteen year old having a birthday party
Big shout out to my local brewery in the same building as my work. They gave me a couple dented beers after the declinations. I bring em pizzas when I stop in after work so they're getting the equivalent of our dented cans (I box up still usable bits of pizzas that get burned or end up with a hole or are just wrong etc)
Dealing with bank stuff is so frustrating and also completely unnecessary cuz it's all fake digital money now, like how does a computer close at 5, or 9 in your case??? (they close the ATMs after """"my"""" bank closes lmao) I know those mfs are just using cloud stuff now too soooo lol, like I need to eat but some algorithm somewhere turned off my card for some reason but I don't get off work at 5 like the office workers at the bank so I can't go in unless it's on my off days but they make me come in cuz they won't do it over the phone so I guess I just don't spend any money for days or go into before work or on my lunch (FUCK that, I'm gonna starve lol). Or idk any number of similar problems that are impossible for me to solve and completely derail my life but literally one button press for some random bank computer-toucher to fix, very very VERY VERY VERY great so-sigh-it-e we got here. Personally I would just give hungry people food and homeless people homes, etc, without needing people to present some kind of magic plastic card literally symbolically connected to some kind of demonic inscrutable computer network that moves around arbitrary numbers, seems less complicated and better
At least this local one I have has been otherwise quite nice to deal with other than that
Am glad you got your beer regardless. Me and my friends are always having to share money for stuff when we get fucked over by financial systems for whatever reason and cards decline or whatever happens ("yes sending that packet to that computer from my computer which are both connected to the global inter-network that exchanges petabytes of data every second to update the 2 byte number that stores how much you get to eat or how well you're going to live after rent will take......... 3 business days... and yes I know you just got paid and there's no money in your account but... it's just impossible, sorrryyy :)))))))))). Unless you want to hand over 10% of your money now please? Money? Can I have some more of your money? Please? Click here to give me money?")
Fucking bleak
Sry, rant mode lol
gotta use a credit card, max out those points
Don't have one