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

By 1911, it had spread to socialist women in Europe, with events in Vienna, though these were held March 18 in honor of the Paris Commune, according to Miller.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022

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

In the movie “Babette’s Feast,” a Frenchwoman comes to a remote Danish fishing village seeking political asylum after losing her husband and son in the Paris Commune of 1871.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2013

But it is the most valuable lesson of the Paris Commune of 1871 and the Revolution in Russia in 1905.

From Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by Spargo, John