The government’s attempt to remove the canons, placed in front of Sacr\u00e9-Coeur to defend the city during the Franco-Prussian war, was a key factor in the outbreak of the insurrection on 18 March 1871 (see above photo). There were further canons in Menilmontant, Place des Vosges and other venues around the city.<\/p>\n
Square Louise Michel<\/strong><\/p>\n Although this small square at the bottom of Sacr\u00e9-Coeur was created in the wake of the defeat of the Paris Commune, in 2004 it was renamed after Louise Michel. A school teacher in Montmartre, she became one of the best known figures of the Paris Commune.<\/p>\n Le mur des F\u00e9d\u00e9r\u00e9s – Cimeti\u00e8re du P\u00e8re-Lachaise Photo: Roger Viollet<\/p><\/div>\n There is a memorial here on the spot where one-hundred and forty-seven f\u00e9d\u00e9r\u00e9s<\/em>, combatants of the Paris Commune, were shot at the foot of the wall and thrown into an open grave at the end of the revolt on 28 May 1871.<\/p>\n A caf\u00e9-concert at this address had been converted into a command post. On 26 May 1871, 52 hostages from the La Roquette prison, including 34 gendarmes and 11 Jesuits, were taken here and executed. There is a commemorative plaque labeled\u00a0 \u201cvilla des otages\u201d on the outside of the building and a memorial is dedicated to them at the nearby Belleville cemetery.<\/p>\n Commune Graffiti in Eglise Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis Photo: Un Jour de Plus a Paris<\/p><\/div>\n Few people know that this beautiful Baroque church in the Marais contains an interesting piece of Commune graffiti. Look for the second pillar on the right when entering the church and you can see the faint words \u201cR\u00e9publique fran\u00e7aise ou la mort<\/em>\u201d (French Republic or death) which were not able to be completely removed.<\/p>\n The Communards set many buildings on fire during the rebellion. Some of these were so badly damaged that they were not rebuilt, like the Tuileries Palace and a palace which stood on the site where the Mus\u00e9e was later built. L’Hotel de Ville, Paris’s City Hall, was among the structures damaged yet restored.<\/p>\n Destruction of the Vendome Column<\/p><\/div>\n Colonne Vendome<\/strong><\/p>\n A group of Communards, led by painter Gustave Courbet, torn down and badly damaged the column erected by Napoleon Bonaparte in the early 1800s. The artist was later forced to pay for it to be rebuilt, which led to his bankruptcy and exile to Switzerland.<\/p>\n You can learn more about the revolt in\u00a0this recent article\u00a0<\/a>on the BBC or in the academic publications on the\u00a0Digital Libraries site<\/a>. As it is quite complex you can also get a better grasp of it via\u00a0this useful Paris Commune timeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The date of 18 March marked the 150th anniversary of the Commune de Paris, a two and a half month long insurrection which occurred in 1871, the last of France’s almost century of revolutions. It was sparked due to the instability which arose in the wake of the French defeat during the Franco-Prussian war and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74581,"featured_media":1271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,172971,173001],"tags":[173003,173001,173004],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Le](\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-13.59.43.png\")
<\/a>Le mur des F\u00e9d\u00e9r\u00e9s – Cimeti\u00e8re du P\u00e8re-Lachaise<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Villa des Otages (85 rue Haxo, 75020)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00c9glise Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Hotel de Ville<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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