Communards defeated on the Plateau of Chatillon; Paris Commu

A battle between the Communards and the National Guard, on the Plateau of Chatillon, which ended in defeat for the Communards, 1871. The battlefield shown, ironically, was a cemetary. At the end of the Franco-Prussian war, Parisian socialists set up the Commune and refused to surrender Paris to the rightwing French government. This led to bitter fighting on the streets of the city and large-scale executions of Communards

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Bitter Chatillon Communards Commune Defeated Ended Executions Ironically Plateau Refused Rightwing

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