1870-1871 Background to the Paris Commune

 

 

Janet Polasky, “The Legacy of the French Revolution” (selections) in William B. Cohen, The Transformation of Modern France (Houghton Mifflin: Boston. 1996), pp. 5– 6, 21–22.

"Rue Transnonian" from Colin Jones, “Haussmannism and the City of Modernity” in Paris: Biography of a City, pp.274-276, 293-298

This excerpt from Jones provides some background about the treatment of the poorer classes in Paris before the Second Empire

Honoré Daumier, Rue Transnonain (1834)