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The Communards were members and supporters of the short-lived 1871 Communes in France formed in the wake of the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.
Communards (National Guards) at Boulevard Voltaire
"The Commune stopped by Ignorance and Reaction"
Executed Communards (National Guards)
Antoine Perrare's (a former Communard and member of the Anti-authoritarian International) mugshot taken by Alphonse Bertillon (Anthropometric File of Anarchists - 1894)
The insurrectionary communes in France in 1870–1871 were communes distinguished by their refusal to acquiesce to two significant events: first, France's capitulation to Bismarck, and second, the submi
Communards
…The Communards (French: ) were members and supporters of the short-lived 1871 Communes in France formed in the wake of the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. After the suppression of the Paris Commune by the French Army in May 1871…
The Declaration to the French People of 1871 set out the plan to organize France as a federation of communes based on direct democracy.
Capture of the Lyon town hall on September 4, 1870, and proclamation of the Republic, the starting point of the Lyon Commune.
The army's last stand against the insurgents entrenched around La Guillotière town hall, on April 30 and May 1, 1871.
Gaston Crémieux was the key player in these events.