Paris Commune

American  

noun

1. commune.

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Paris Commune British  

noun

1. French history the council established in Paris in the spring of 1871 in opposition to the National Assembly and esp to the peace negotiated with Prussia following the Franco-Prussian War. Troops of the Assembly crushed the Commune with great bloodshed

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Etymology

Origin of Paris Commune

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

Verlaine, already a well-known poet, joined the Paris Commune, the short-lived socialist government, marking him as a radical in the eyes of the national government.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2020

It survived the Paris Commune in the spring of 1871.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2019

Alistair Horne, a former British intelligence agent, produced volumes on the Algerian War and Franco-German conflicts from the Paris Commune to World War II.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2017

During the rioting of the Paris Commune, Turgenev wrote to Flaubert: “Oh we have hard times to live through, those of us who are born spectators.”

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2014

Most certainly I do not like the Paris Commune, such as the men of the Hôtel de Ville understand it.

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John