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The Paris Commune (French: Commune de Paris, pronounced [kɔ.myn də pa.ʁi]) was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris on 18 March 1871 and controlled parts of the city until 28 May 1871. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, the French National Guard had defended Paris, and working-class radicalism grew among its ...
With a declaration of war by the French parliament on 16 July 1870, Imperial France soon faced a series of defeats at German hands over the following months, leading to the Battle of Sedan, which, on 2 September 1870, saw a decisive defeat of French forces and the capture of the French emperor, Napoleon III.
The Communards (French:) were members and supporters of the short-lived 1871 Paris Commune formed in the wake of the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. After the suppression of the Commune by the French Army in May 1871, 43,000 Communards were taken prisoner, and 6,500 to 7,500 fled abroad. [1]
"The Civil War in France" (German: Der Bürgerkrieg in Frankreich) is a pamphlet written and first published in 1871 by Karl Marx as an official statement of the General Council of the First International on the Franco-Prussian War and on the character and significance of the struggle of the Communards in the Paris Commune.
La proclamation de la commune, 26 mars 1871. Trente journées qui ont fait la France. Paris: Gallimard. Schulkind, Eugene (April 1972). "Imagination and Revolution: Guidelines for a Historiography of the Literature of the Paris Commune of 1871". International Review of Social History. 17 (1): 539–551. doi: 10.1017/S0020859000006702. ISSN 0020 ...
Following the insurrection of March 18, 1871, which sparked off the Paris Commune, France found itself in a situation of civil war, on the one hand, the government led by Adolphe Thiers, who had fled to Versailles, where the National Assembly also sat in support of him, and on the other the Paris Commune, which ruled Paris alone, [7] despite attempts by insurrectionary communes in the provinces.
10–12 January - Battle of Le Mans ends French resistance in western France. 15–17 January - Battle of the Lisaine: Prussian victory. 18 January - Prussian King Wilhelm I is proclaimed German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. 19 January - Battle of St. Quentin: Prussians defeat French attempts to relieve the siege of Paris.
Five died, and 18 were wounded. Though the event had been smaller than the October uprising, the January insurrection irreconcilably split Paris's factions and presaged the coming civil war. [1] Revolutionaries involved in the uprising included Louise Michel, Sophie Poirier, and Andre Leo. At the demonstration, Michel dressed as a National ...