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| Picture No | 10219090 |
| Date | 1871 |
| Description | The Last Stand of the Communards; Paris Commune 1871 |
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The last stand of the Paris Communards at their barricades, against the onslaught 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 by William Simpson in 'The Graphic', 3 June 1871, page 521 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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