On March 18 1871, after France was defeated by Prussia in the Franco-Prussian war, the French government sent troops into Paris to try and take back the Parisian National Guard’s cannon before the ...

The 1871 Paris Commune, an uprising against a conservative government by working-class Parisians that was brutally crushed after 72 days, is one of the lesser-known chapters in French history.

The priests were executed by firing squad on May 26, 1871, during the Haxo Street massacre that took place at the end of the two-month reign of the Paris Commune, the revolutionary and anti ...

The Paris Commune of 1871 was a model for the revolutions of the 20th century — freedom, liberty, equality, were the cries. But the violence foreshadowed the abuses of state power to come.

With its bold, anachronistic concept and cast of ad-libbing amateur actors, La Commune (Paris, 1871) is an essential record of a forgotten uprising. Reading Time: 2 minutes.

Washington D.C., Apr 25, 2023 / 10:40 am. Five French priests who were executed by an anticlerical insurrectionist government in Paris in 1871 were beatified as martyrs on Saturday, April 22, in a ...