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| Picture No | 10219083 |
| Date | March to May 1871 |
| Description | Hotel de Ville, Paris, after the Paris Commune 1871 |
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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.
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| Source | Engraving in 'The Graphic', 10 June 1871, page 532 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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