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| Picture No | 10219098 |
| Date | 1871 |
| Description | Communards attacking the Hotel de Ville; Paris Commune 1871 |
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The 'Red Republican Insurgents' (as the original caption called them) attacking the Hotel de Ville, Paris, shortly prior to finally setting it on fire, 17th May 1871. 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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| Source | Engraving in 'The Illustrated London News', 25 February 1871, page 176 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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