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

Mr. Dufresne said he had the feeling he was living a moment in French revolutionary history like the Paris Commune in 1871, or the time in 1789 when a group like this stormed the Bastille prison, freed a handful of prisoners and took the supply of gunpowder.

From New York Times

The building was erected in the late 19th century at the behest of conservative political forces, on the spot where they had previously crushed in blood the Paris Commune revolution of 1871.

From New York Times

But the move was eventually delayed under pressure from politicians from the Communist Party and from France Unbowed, a hard-left party, which denounced it as bad timing, coming on the year of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune.

From New York Times

“One cannot honor the Sacré-Coeur, regardless of what it symbolizes as a bloodstain on our Republic and on this unique revolution which is the Paris Commune,” Danielle Simonnet, a hard-left councilor said during a debate that preceded the vote.

From New York Times

In France, the 1890s saw something of a religious revival, as people looked to the consolations of Catholicism’s moral order as an antidote to wider upheavals in society, which had reached a low point during the Paris Commune in 1871.

From Washington Post