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

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

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

The first writer who produced original matter from the papers of the Paris Commune was Mortimer Ternaux, whose eight volumes on the Reign of Terror came out between 1862 and 1880.

From Lectures on the French Revolution by Figgis, John Neville