Read The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71 Online
Authors: Alistair Horne
Tags: #History, #Europe, #General
Elihu Wasburne
Adolphe Thiers
Edmond de Goncourt
Raoul Rigault
Charles Delescluze
Louis Rossel
Théophile Ferré
Louise Michel
Communard proclamation announcing the Versaillais entry into Paris
Place Blanche defended by the Communard Women’s Battalion May 23rd.—The capture of Montmartre
The Follies of the Commune | |
‘Aren’t they stupid! They hate us provincials, yet it’s their city they burn!’ | ‘Watch me, you poor amateur!’ |
‘Execution of a trumpeter, during the Commune’—from a painting by Alfred Roll, 1871
‘In all his glory’, the Marquis of Gallife—from a drawing by Steinlen