Communist Scavenger Hunt

May 23rd, 2018

In an earlier post (May 1968), I included the following photo I took of a small mosaic tribute I found to communist journalist Jules Vallès.  It was on the side of a building near the Panthéon, if I remember correctly.  

Then out walking a few days ago, I just found this mosaic tribute to Georges Pilotell, an artist and communist political cartoonist from the same era as Jules Vallès.  It was on a post of the wall surrounding Luxembourg Gardens. 

I wonder how many there are around the city.  I tried googling to find the story behind these portraits, but I came up empty.  Does anyone know?