A Commune Barricade, Paris 1871
A barricade at the corner of the boulevards Voltaire and Richard-Lenoir during the Paris Commune of 1871.
For seventy-two days Paris governed itself. The Commune separated church and state, cancelled rents accrued during the siege and handed abandoned workshops to workers' associations, while the national government regrouped at Versailles. The reconquest of the city in May killed thousands in a week. Photographs of the barricades were later used by the authorities to identify participants. Read the full story in our article on The Paris Commune of 1871: Revolution in the Heart of France.
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