Executing Communards in the Luxembourg Garden; Paris Commune

Versailles Government troops executing Communard prisoners in the Jardin du Luxembourg, May 1871. At the fall of the Commune in May 1871 over 20, 000 Communards and left wing sympathisers were summarily executed. Many others were transported to New Caledonia

Caledonia Communard Communards Executed Executing Jardin Luxembourg Summarily Sympathisers Transported

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