Picture No | 10219092 |
Date | 1871 |
Description | Socialists fighting to the death; Paris Commune, 1871 |
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Men and women of the Commune fighting, to the death, against troops of the National Guard, Paris. 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', 10 June 1871, page 561 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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