The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71 (79 page)

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Authors: Alistair Horne

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BOOK: The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71
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Elihu Wasburne

Adolphe Thiers

Edmond de Goncourt

Raoul Rigault

Charles Delescluze

Louis Rossel

Théophile Ferré

Louise Michel

Communard proclamation announcing the Versaillais entry into Paris

Place Blanche defended by the Communard Women’s Battalion May 23rd.—The capture of Montmartre

 

The Follies of the Commune
by Cham

‘Aren’t they stupid! They hate us provincials, yet it’s their city they burn!’

‘Watch me, you poor amateur!’

‘Execution of a trumpeter, during the Commune’—from a painting by Alfred Roll, 1871

‘In all his glory’, the Marquis of Gallife—from a drawing by Steinlen

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