The Paris Commune (January-May 1871)
Background to the Struggle over the Commune
Conflict between the Paris Commune and National Government at Versailles
Tensions Between Paris and the New French Goverment
Zola's account of the break between the Paris Commune and the central goverment
Cartoon of "Adolphe Thiers, King of the Capitulators" (Thiers was the leader of the national govenment at Versailles.]
Tuesday, April 4 - Tuesday, April 25, 1871 -- Excerpts from the Journal of Edmond de Goncourt in which he describes life under the Commune and the impact of the shelling of the city by the Versailles forces.
Battle between the Commune and the Versailles Government
Zola on the growing violence between the Commune and the Versailles govenment
Zola on worsening conditions in the Commune
Friday, May 19- Tuesday, May 23, 1871-- Excerpts from the Journal of Edmond de Goncourt in which he describes his experiences of the assault on the city by the forces loyal to the offical government at Versailles
Zola's description of the national goverrnment's attack on the Paris Commune
Zola on the destruction wrought by the communards
John Leighton: " One Day Under the Paris Commune, 1871"
Henry Lissagaray, History of the Paris Commune of 1871 (A 1876 account sympathetic to the Commune)
"Martyrs of the Paris Commune" [This is a Catholic view of the last days of the Commune.]
Maxime Du Camp, The Convulsions of Paris (1879)
The Aftermath of the Suppression of the Commune
Adolph Thiers, "The Chief Executive to Prefects and all Civil, Judicial, and Military Authorities"
Friday, May 26 - Wednesday, May 31 -- April 4-25, 1871 --Excerpts from the Journal of Edmond de Goncourt describing the suppression of the Commune
The Trial of Louise Michel
Other Sources of Information about and Interpretations of the Significance of the Paris Commune
"The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871" -- McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University (Collection of images from the Commune.)
"The Paris Commune Archive" from Anarchy Archives: An Online Research Center on the History and Theory of Anarchism
A sympathetic treatment in "The Paris Commune told in pictures"
Communard Cannons on the Heights at Montmartre
Parisians Trying to Avoid the Fighting
Paris Street March 1871
Communard Dead