Explanation: After the failure of the French Second Empire during the Franco-Prussian War, there was considerable wartime unrest. The Second Empire was overthrown by the Third Republic, but the Third Republic did not fare much better on the battlefield. Encouraged by the weakness of the government, the working people of Paris rose up and established an anarchist commune - The Paris Commune! A secular, socialist, anarchist, and proto-feminist experiment which roused the spirits of the working class into a (mostly) functional self-organized body.
Unfortunate, the French Third Republic could not counteance radicals in their midst, and certainly not radicals who took their capital from them, brought its full force to bear, and destroyed the experiment, with thousands killed, and many extrajudicially executed. Still, we remember the Commune in this house! It lives forever in our hearts!
Title is from Louise Michel, a Communard militiawoman, very based
Explanation: After the failure of the French Second Empire during the Franco-Prussian War, there was considerable wartime unrest. The Second Empire was overthrown by the Third Republic, but the Third Republic did not fare much better on the battlefield. Encouraged by the weakness of the government, the working people of Paris rose up and established an anarchist commune - The Paris Commune! A secular, socialist, anarchist, and proto-feminist experiment which roused the spirits of the working class into a (mostly) functional self-organized body.
Unfortunate, the French Third Republic could not counteance radicals in their midst, and certainly not radicals who took their capital from them, brought its full force to bear, and destroyed the experiment, with thousands killed, and many extrajudicially executed. Still, we remember the Commune in this house! It lives forever in our hearts!
Title is from Louise Michel, a Communard militiawoman, very based