Paris Commune

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noun

commune² (def. 8).

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Origin of Paris Commune

First recorded in 1960–65

Words nearby Paris Commune

paring knife, pari passu, paripinnate, Paris, Paris Club, Paris Commune, Paris daisy, Paris green, parish, Parishad, parish clerk

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How to use Paris Commune in a sentence

They took cover inside a print works to the north east of Paris, where they held a member of staff as a hostage.
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France 24's coverage of two developing hostage situations in Paris on Friday.
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As soon as this attack [happened], Paris citizens came together to show were are not afraid, we are Charlie Hebdo.
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Patrick Klugman, the deputy mayor of Paris, said: “We are living our kind of 9/11,” he said.
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The questions going through my mind are: How on earth are there Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers in the heart of Paris?
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But he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
Louis Petit de Bachaumon died; a native of Paris, known as the author of several literary works.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
What though Maurice wanted to persuade me at Paris that I had better take a britska, as more fashionable?
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In Paris, Joachim soon found that the royal road to success lay in denouncing loudly all superior officers of lack of patriotism.
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I often recall the farewell lunch we had together at the Restaurant de Paris, in the Escolta.
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British Dictionary definitions for Paris Commune

Paris Commune

noun

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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