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France - Commune, Paris, Revolution: A few days later, the assembly transferred the seat of government from Bordeaux to Versailles. Immediately after, it was confronted by a major civil war—the rebellion of the Commune of Paris. This event, complex in itself, has been made even more difficult to understand by the mythology that later grew up around it. Karl Marx, who promptly hailed the ...
Dec 15, 2014 · The Paris Commune of 1871 was one of the four great traumas that shaped modern France. It stands alongside the 1789 Revolution, the ascent of Vichy, in 1940, and (odd though it seems, given how ...
The Paris Commune was the municipal or city government of Paris, formed during the insurrection of July 1789. Dominated by liberal moderate figures in its first three years, the Commune was overthrown and replaced on August 1792, becoming more representative of working-class interests and political radicalism.
May 14, 2018 · The Siege of Paris. The immediate seeds of the revolt that created the Paris Commune lay in the Franco-Prussian War. In particular, four months of siege isolated Paris from the rest of France. With the defeat and capture of Napoleon III at Sedan, the victors declared a republic on 4 September 1870.
Oct 30, 2021 · The Paris Commune: A Major Socialist Uprising. After a devastating defeat against Prussia in 1870, France faced one of its biggest uprisings in modern history: a popular socialist revolt, establishing the Paris Commune. The year is 1871. France has been severely defeated in the 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war. Paris is in turmoil.
Nov 15, 2022 · The Experiment. The life and afterlife of the Paris Commune. David A. Bell. Paris Commune, 1871. (Getty Images) This article appears in the November 28/December 5, 2022 issue . We generally don ...
Mar 11, 2024 · The roots of the Paris Commune lie partly in the Franco-Prussian War, a conflict started by the Emperor Napoleon III (Louis-Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte) in 1870 in a bid to reassert France’s dominant position in Europe. But France lost the war, Paris was besieged by Bismarck’s Prussian army for over four months, and Louis ...
