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    The Paris Commune (French: Commune de Paris, pronounced [kɔ.myn də pa.ʁi]) was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris from 18 March...
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    The Paris Commune during the French Revolution was the government of Paris from 1789 until 1795. Established in the Hôtel de Ville just after the storming...
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    The fires of Paris during the Commune were the premeditated destruction of monuments and residential buildings in Paris mainly during Bloody Week, the...
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  • The Paris Commune was an insurrectionary period in the history of Paris that lasted just over two months, from March 18, 1871, to the Semaine sanglante...
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  • historiography of the Paris Commune connects its 1871 events with the revolutions of 1848 and 1917. Historical interpretation of the Commune influenced subsequent...
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    The city of Paris (also called the Commune or Department of Paris) had a population of 2,165,423 people within its administrative city limits as of January...
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    November 2014. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Paris, EHESS (in French). "Le Parisien", "Paris n'attire plus comme autrefois:...
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    It was burned by the Paris Commune, along with all the city archives that it contained, during the Semaine Sanglante, the Commune's final days, in May 1871...
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    Crimes de la Commune is a series of photomontages produced by French photographer Ernest-Charles Appert at the end of the Paris Commune. A Parisian photographer...
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  • The Commune Council (French: conseil de la Commune), simply known as the Commune, was the government during the 72-day Paris Commune in 1871. Following...
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  • La Commune (Paris, 1871) is a 2000 historical drama film directed by Peter Watkins about the Paris Commune. A historical re-enactment in the style of...
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  • Freemasonry. In 1871, while the obediences kept their distance from the Paris Commune, some Freemasons openly joined the ranks of the federates, while others...
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    cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. Communes typically are based on pre-existing villages...
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    statistical Paris metropolitan area covers 1,929 communes. With its 18,941 km2 (7,313 sq mi), it extends significantly beyond Paris' administrative Île-de-France...
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  • Never Fade from That Fusillade" – 3:15 Scene 2: The Commune de Paris – 2:43 "Vive la Commune de Paris" – 3:16 "The National Assembly is Confused" – 2:41...
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    Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG), also known as Roissy Airport or simply Paris CDG, is the main international airport serving Paris...
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  • of the Paris Commune lists major events that occurred during and surrounding the Paris Commune, a revolutionary government that controlled Paris between...
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    The mayor of Paris (French: Maire de Paris) is the chief executive of Paris, the capital and largest city in France. The officeholder is responsible for...
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    comprises 131 communes, including Paris and all 123 communes in the surrounding inner-suburban departments of the Petite Couronne (Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis...
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    Place Vendôme (category Squares in Paris)
    Battle of Austerlitz; it was torn down on 16 May 1871, by decree of the Paris Commune, but subsequently re-erected and remains a prominent feature on the...
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    the basilica was proposed before the Paris Commune took place.(See Paris Commune) "Dictionnaire Historique de Paris", p. 684 Legentil had wanted to demolish...
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  • Examples include: The Paris Commune of 1871 (La Commune de Paris) was a revolutionary government that seized control of the city of Paris, which governed the...
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    Paris has gradually shifted outward, with only two arrondissements still growing. Uniquely among French cities, Paris is both a municipality (commune)...
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    final days of the Paris Commune, Communards attempt unsuccessfully to burn the cathedral. 1944 – On 26 August, General Charles de Gaulle celebrates the...
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    Communards (category Paris Commune)
    short-lived 1871 Paris Commune formed in the wake of the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. After the suppression of the Commune by the French Army...
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    Château de Vincennes. It lies on the border between the commune of Vincennes and the Bois de Vincennes, which is part of the 12th arrondissement of Paris. Island...
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    disgruntled and radicalized Parisian population taking control of Paris and forming the Paris Commune. As early as August 1870, the Prussian 3rd Army led by Crown...
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    Elisabeth Dmitrieff (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the revolutionary Paris Commune was declared following the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, Marx sent Dmitrieff to Paris as a representative...
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    Paris is the only territorial collectivity in France to be both a commune and a département. The Mayor of Paris presides over the Council of Paris and...
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    Vitry-sur-Seine (category Communes of Val-de-Marne)
    pronunciation: [vitʁi syʁ sɛn]) is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France, 7.5 km (4.7 mi) from the centre of Paris. Vitry-sur-Seine was originally...
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