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

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Paris Commune

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

I pulled a book about the Paris Commune out of Middle Ages, paged through it, and helpfully reshelved it in the section marked the Victorian Era.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2020

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

The Paris Commune may have been the last of the 19th-century revolutions, but as Merriman persuasively concludes, it also served as a chilling introduction to the atrocities of the century to come.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2015

In 1870 he attempted a rising at Lyons on the principles afterwards exemplified by the Paris Commune.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various