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The Paris Commune — The Paris insurrection of spring 1871
Born on 18 March of the refusal to surrender the cannon, the Commune governed Paris for seventy-two days — red flag, secular schooling, separation of Church and State — before the Versaillais crushed it in Bloody Week: thousands shot, thousands deported. (Editorial synthesis)
The Paris Commune began on 18 March 1871. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The Paris Commune ended on 28 May 1871. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The Paris Commune took place in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The Paris Commune ended in the insurrection’s crushing in Bloody Week. (source: Larousse)
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