Massacre The Life and Death of the Paris Commune 1st Edition
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Full Title

Massacre The Life and Death of the Paris Commune 1st Edition
Author(s)

John Merriman
Edition

1st Edition
ISBN

9780465056828, 9780465020171
Publisher

Basic Books
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

From a pre-eminent Yale historian comes the first popular history of the 1871 Paris Commune, a seminal episode in modern European history. The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of the grandest political dreams of the nineteenth century — before culminating in horrific violence. Following the disastrous French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, hungry and politically disenchanted Parisians took up arms against their government in the name of a more just society. They expelled loyalists and soldiers and erected barricades in the streets. In Massacre, John Merriman introduces a cast of inimitable Communards — from les péoleuses (female incendiaries) to the painter Gustave Courbet — whose idealism fueled a revolution. And he vividly recreates the Commune’s chaotic and bloody end when 30,000 troops stormed the city, burning half of Paris and executing captured Communards en masse. A stirring evocation of the spring when Paris was ablaze with cannon fire and its citizens were their own masters, Massacre reveals how the indomitable spirit of the Commune shook the very foundations of Europe.

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