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10,000-15,000 killed. 43,000 captured. The semaine sanglante (" Bloody Week ") was a weeklong battle in Paris from 21 to 28 May 1871, during which the French Army recaptured the city from the Paris Commune. This was the final battle of the Paris Commune.
- 21-28 May 1871(1 week)
- French Army victory; recapture of Paris
- Paris, France
La Semaine sanglante, du dimanche 21 au dimanche suivant 28 mai 1871, désigne la période la plus meurtrière de la guerre civile de 1871 et l'épisode final de la Commune de Paris, au cours de laquelle l'insurrection est écrasée et ses membres exécutés en masse.
- 21-28 mai 1871(7 jours)
- Paris
- Victoire du gouvernement de Versailles
Nov 17, 2022 · Bloody Week. By May 23, the third day of what became known as Semaine Sanglante or “Bloody Week,” Third Republic Versaillais troops had overrun most of Paris, and the slaughter of Communards ...
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Le 28 mai 1871, après une semaine de combats sanglants, la Commune de Paris est écrasée par les troupes de Thiers. Le bilan humain est terrible : 4 000 tués, 20 000 arrestations et 30 000 exécutions.
Mar 18, 2021 · How was the Commune defeated in La semaine sanglante (“The Bloody Week”), which ended when the national army destroyed the last pockets of Communard resistance on May 28?
- Tom WHEELDON
Guy Endore's 1933 horror novel The Werewolf of Paris is set during the Paris Commune and contrasts the savagery of the werewolf with the savagery of La Semaine Sanglante. French writer Jean Vautrin 's 1998 novel Le Cri du Peuple deals with the rise and fall of the Commune.
May 28, 2021 · Known as la semaine sanglante, or Bloody Week, Paris would suffer a ferocious bloodletting. By the next morning, the Arc de Triomphe flew a tricolour rather than the Commune’s red flag. While the communards had hastily built hundreds of poorly-constructed barricades in the boulevards, some 110,000 troops marched through the city, amongst ...
