History of the Paris Commune of 1871 Index HISTORY OF THE PARIS COMMUNE OF 1871 PUBLISHER’S NOTE INTRODUCTION PREFACE PROLOGUE 1. THE PRUSSIANS ENTER PARIS 2. THE COALITION OPENS FIRE ON PARIS 3. THE EIGHTEENTH OF MARCH 4. THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE CALLS FOR ELECTIONS 5. REORGANIZATION OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES 6. THE MAYORS AND THE ASSEMBLY COMBINE AGAINST PARIS 7. THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE FORCES THE MAYORS TO CAPITULATE 8. PROCLAMATION OF THE COMMUNE 9. THE COMMUNE AT LYONS, ST. ETIENNE AND CREUZOT 10. THE COMMUNE AT MARSEILLES, TOULOUSE AND NARBONNE 11. THE COUNCIL OF THE COMMUNE WAVERS 12. THE VERSAILLESE BEAT BACK THE COMMUNE PATROLS AND MASSACRE PRISONERS 13. THE COMMUNE IS DEFEATED AT MARSEILLES AND NARBONNE 14. THE WEAKNESSES OF THE COUNCIL 15. THE COMMUNE’S FIRST COMBATS 16. THE MANIFESTO AND THE GERMS OF DEFEAT 17. WOMEN OF THE COMMUNE AND THE OPPOSING ARMIES 18. THE WORK OF THE COMMUNE 19. FORMATION OF THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY 20. ROSSEL REPLACES CLUSERET 21. PARIS BOMBARDED: ROSSEL FLEES 22. CONSPIRACIES AGAINST THE COMMUNE 23. THE ‘LEFTS’ BETRAY PARIS 24. THE NEW COMMITTEE AT WORK 25. PARIS ON THE EVE OF DEATH 26. THE ENEMY ENTERS PARIS 27. THE INVASION CONTINUES 28. THE STREET BATTLES CONTINUE 29. ON THE BARRICADES 30. THE LEFT BANK FALLS 31. THE COMMUNE’S LAST STAND 32. THE VERSAILLESE FURY 33. THE FATE OF THE PRISONERS 34. THE TRIALS OF THE COMMUNARDS 35. THE EXECUTIONS 36. THE BALANCE-SHEET OF BOURGEOIS VENGEANCE APPENDICES GLOSSARY ALL PAGES Share TweetPage 18 of 4313. The Commune is defeated at Marseilles and NarbonneThus the revolts of the great towns died out one by one like the lateral craters of an exhausted volcano. The revolutionaries of the provinces showed themselves everywhere completely disorganized, without any faculty to wield power. Everywhere victorious at the outset, the workmen had only known how to pronounce for Paris. But at least they showed some vitality, generosity, and pride. Eighty years of bourgeois domination had not been able to transform them into a nation of mercenaries; while the Radicals, who either combated or held aloof from them, once more attested the decrepitude, the egotism of the middle-class, always ready to betray the working men to the ‘upper’ classes. Prev Next
