The Paris Commune paris_commune.1 · dlc004
A long period of discontent over the government's demands of the … in … has escalated into open rebellion within the city. Revolutionaries have executed several Army officers and declared a rival government, under the ….
"The proletarians of Paris, amidst the failures and treasons of the ruling classes, have understood that the hour has struck for them to save the situation by taking into their own hands the direction of public affairs. They have understood that it is their imperious duty, and their absolute right, to render themselves masters of their own destinies, by seizing upon the governmental power." — Karl Marx, The Civil War in France
The Bloody Week paris_commune.2 · dlc004
Forces loyal to the … government have marched upon Paris, conclusively defeating the …'s forces over the span of a week-long battle within the city limits. Mass executions of captured National Guardsmen loyal to the Commune have already been reported.
"The Commune, surrounded from every direction, had only death on its horizon. It could only be brave, and it was. And in dying it opened wide the door to the future. That was its destiny." — Louise Michel
The March on Versailles paris_commune.3 · dlc004
A several thousand-strong force of National Guardsmen loyal to the … has marched upon the palace at Versailles, capturing the ministers of … government. The flag of the Commune has been raised over the main bastion of conservative resistance.
"The communal revolution, begun by popular initiative, begins a new era of experimental, positive, scientific politics. It is the end of the old governmental and clerical world, of militarism and functionarism, of exploitation, speculation, monopolies and privileges to which the proletariat owe their servitude and the Fatherland its misfortunes and disasters." — Manifesto of the Paris Commune
The Communards' Revolution paris_commune.4 · dlc004
Long-running tensions between the … people and the … government have reached a boiling point. Revolutionaries across the country have declared loyalty to the …, marching against the embattled central government.
"Make way for the People, for fighters with bare arms! The hour of revolutionary war has sounded! To arms, citizens! To arms!" — Louis Delescluze
Crisis in Paris paris_commune.5 · dlc004
Discontent in … has led to the seizure of the city of Paris by revolutionaries. France is now split between two rival governments - that of Paris, and that of Versailles.
It was now midday, and the whole affair wore a most strange and incomprehensible aspect to one not brought up to making barricades. Instead of a government blocking every street as was the case in the morning, a hostile cannon was now looking down every street. — Anonymous Times of London correspondent, 1871
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