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| Picture No | 10219126 |
| Date | 1871 |
| Description | Pulling down the Red Flag, Grand Opera House; Paris Commune |
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Red Flag being taken down from the Grand Opera House in Paris, indicating the fall of the Paris Commune of 1871. As the Commune fell 8 days of bloody revenge began, with the French Army slaughtering up to 30,000 members and suspected members of the Commune.
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| Source | Engraving in 'The Illustrated London News', 17 June 1871, page 596 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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