Commune Collection (page 6)

Paris Commune. The Martyr Hostages. The Archbishop
" Paris Commune. " The Martyr Hostages". The Archbishop of Paris, together with other clergymen, is shooted in the prison of Roquette by order of the Revolutionary Goverment (May 24)

France (1871). Commune de Paris. Uprising of
" France (1871). Commune de Paris. " Uprising of "

The strike of Creusot of 1870. Meeting of factory workers in the pay moment. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Journees de Bourg-la-Reine... 1915 - au profit des oeuvres de la commune. Mother with children. Date 1915. Journees de Bourg-la-Reine... 1915 - au profit des oeuvres de la commune

Paris and the Commune. Date c1891

Distress in Paris 1874
The war with Prussia, followed by the Commune, leave France in an impoverished condition : in Paris the poor are forced to pawn household possessions such as bedding, Date: 1874

Government at Bordeaux
While Paris is under the control of the Commune, the Assemblee nationale is housed in the Grand-Theatre at Bordeaux. Date: April-may 1871

Attacking Communards
Forces of the Versailles government attack the heavily barricaded Paris Communards headquarters in the place Vendome. Date: May 1871

Saint Jean-de-Luz - The Socoa Bridge
Saint Jean-de-Luz - a commune in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques department in south-western France. In the traditional province of Lapurdi of the Basque Country

Vendome Column 2
The column in the place Vendome, Paris, is pulled down by the Communards, as a symbol of the previous regime, at the instigation of artist Gustave Courbet. Date: 8 May 1871

Vendome Column 4
A veteran of Napoleons campaigns mourns the destruction of the Vendome column by the Communards who see it as a symbol of the previous regime. Date: 8 May 1871

Female Communardesde
Vivre la commune ! - the women of Paris fight alongside the men to defend the Commune against the government. Date: 1871

Attacking the Commune
Forces of the Versailles government attack the Commune : artillery at Fort Valerien firing at the city. Date: April 1871

Exiled Communards 2
Living as best they can, French communist refugees after the collapse of the Commune find refuge in London. Date: 1872

Exiled Communards 1
Fleeing France after the Commune, communist refugees establish a community in London : they maintain a co- operative kitchen in Newman Passage, near Charing Cross. Date: 1872

Vendome Column 1
Cutting the base of the column in the place Vendome, Paris, preparatory to pulling it down, at the instigation of artist Gustave Courbet. Date: 8 May 1871

Exiled Communards 3
After the collapse of the Commune, French Communards take refuge in London : they process through the streets on Sunday mornings, soliciting money from the crowd. Date: 1871

Women of the Commune
The women of Paris - women support the Commune as enthusiastically as the men, taking a fiercely active part in the insurrection. Date: 1871

Paris Commune Defeated
Government forces suppress the Commune : fighting on the housetops in the Faubourg Poisonniere. Anyone with a gun or a can of petrol in their hands is summarily shot. Date: 1871

Petroleuse Arrestede
The last of the commune - a petroleuse says goodbye to her children as she is led away, probably to be shot. Date: 1871

Communards Attacked
Government forces recapture Paris from the Communards : a field gun at the Pont de Neuilly commands the avenue leading to the Arc de Triomphe. Date: 1871

Colonne De Juillet
The Colonne de Juillet in the place de la Bastille, Paris, commemorating the 1830 revolution, is decorated with red flags and tricouleurs by the Communards. Date: March 1871

Vendome Column 3
Communards celebrate the destruction of the column in the place Vendome, Paris, seen as a symbol of the previous regime, at the instigation of artist Gustave Courbet. Date: 8 May 1871

Commune Womens Club
The women of Paris participate as enthusiastically in the Commune as the men : an impassioned orator addresses a womens club at the Boule Noire, boulevard Rochechouart. Date: March-April 1871

Rue Royale Fires
Fires are started in parts of Paris, often by petroleuses - women carrying cans of fuel. Firemen fight fires in the fashionable rue Royale, seen as symbolic of the old regime. Date: April- May 1871

Republican Club, Paris
At a Red Republican club in Paris, a speaker exhorts his comrades to defend the Commune against the government forces. Date: 1871

Burning Guillotine
The Paris Communards burn the guillotine - symbol of the despised government - in the place Voltaire. Date: March-April 1871

Street Barricades
The Communards erect barricades throughout Paris to hamper the assaults of government forces : they are scenes of bitter fighting. Date: April 1871

Petroleuse Captured
A petroleuse - a woman supporter of the Commune who set fire to buildings - is cornered and shot by the government forces. Date: May - June 1871

Sestri Levante, Italy
Sestri Levante - a town and comune in Liguria, Italy. Lying on the north western Italian Mediterranean Sea coast. Date: 1903

Merano, Province of Bolzano, Italy
Castel Planta - Merano, Province of Bolzano, Italy - now a Hotel. Date: circa 1910s

Chile - Taltal - Part of the Station
Chile - Taltal (a Chilean commune and city in Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region) - Part of the Station Date: circa 1908

Cauterets, France - Pyrenees Department
Cauterets, France - a spa town, ski resort and a commune in the Hautes-Pyrenees department in south-western France. View toward the Pic de Monne over the Plateau du Cambasque. Date: 1906

Romania - Turcoaia Granite Quarry
Granite Quarry at Turcoaia - a commune in Tulcea County, Romania. Date: circa 1910s

France - Annonay - Ardeche Department
France - Annonay - Ardeche. Annonay was the location of the Montgolfier brothers first public unmanned hot air balloon flight, on June 4, 1783

Sheep in the street / village at Gavarnie, France
Gavarnie is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrenees department in southwestern France. The village, at an elevation of 4, 452 feet (1, 357 m) in the valley of the Gave (torrent) de Pau

Police search, Germany
Police conduct searches of people on a crackdown against the Commune in pre-war Germany

Jules Valles / Gill
Jules Valles (1832-1885) French journalist and writer, member of the Commune

Felix Jobb-Duval / Gill
Flix Armand Marie Jobb-Duval (1821-1889) artist, painter of numerous wall decorations, a Republican and Freemason and member of the Municipal Council of Paris

Alphonse Humbert / Gill
Alphonse Humbert (1844-1922) Journalist, Republican, Blanquist. He published Le Pre Duchne during the Commune, was deported then pardoned and elected as municipal councilor

Hector France / Gill
Hector France (1837-1908) French author, libertarian and anti-anticlerical from a military family, a member of the Paris Commune, moved to London and published in the triple X books

Arthur Arnould / Gill
Arthur Arnould. French writer, member of the Commune, journalist, historian freethinker, subsequently a theosophist. Writer under the pseudonym of A. Matthey

Masons Support Commune
Paris Freemasons support the Commune, thereby damning themselves even further in the eyes of the Catholic Church

Attack on the Communards, Place Vendome; Paris Commune, 1871
Illustration showing the attack, by Government troops, on the Communards in the Place Vendome, 1871. This was one of the last pockets of Communard resistance against the French Army

Street fighting in the Rue de Rivoli; Paris Commune, 1871
Illustration showing street fighting, in the Rue de Rivoli, between French Government troops and Paris Communards, 1871. Barricades can be seen at each end of the street

Socialists attacking the Fire-Station, Belleville; Franco-Pr
Illustration showing some Red Republican Conspirators attacking the Firemans Station at Belleville, Paris. Socialist agitators were already a force in Paris and tried to proclaim a new republic

Paris Louvre Tuileries
Bird s-eye view of the Louvre and the Tuileries, shortly before the destruction of the Tuileries during the Commune

Thiers the Magician
Adolphe the Alchemist, a Tale of Wonder and Enchantment - Punch mocks Adolphe Thiers efforts to get France back on her feet after the defeat by Prussia and the Commune

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