Hotel de Ville, Paris, after the Paris Commune 1871

Paris Hotel de Ville, after destruction by Communards during the Paris Commune of 1871. At the end of the Franco-Prussian war, Parisian socialists refused to surrender Paris to the rightwing French government, which led to bitter fighting on the streets of the city and large-scale executions of Communards

Bitter Communards Commune Executions Fired Liquid Mixture Petrol Refused Rightwing Turpentine Ville

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