Paris Commune

Paris Commune

noun
commune3 (def. 8).

Origin:
1960–65
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Paris Commune
 
n
French history the council established in Paris in the spring of 1871 in opposition to the National Assembly and esp to the peace negotiated with Prussia following the Franco-Prussian War. Troops of the Assembly crushed the Commune with great bloodshed

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