communard
Sign in to savethumb|Communards (National Guards) at Boulevard Voltaire right|thumb|"The Commune arrested by Ignorance and Reaction" thumb|Executed Communards (National Guard (France)|National Guards)The Communards () were members and supporters of the short-lived 1871 Communes in France formed in the wake of the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.
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- Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune
- Deportation
- Sentences
- Life in New Caledonia
- Escape
- Relationships with the Kanak
- Famous Communards
- Amnesty
- Aftermath
- See also
- Database
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|Communards (National Guards) at Boulevard Voltaire right|thumb|"The Commune arrested by Ignorance and Reaction" thumb|Executed Communards (National Guard (France)|National Guards)The Communards () were members and supporters of the short-lived 1871 Communes in France formed in the wake of the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.
After the suppression of the Paris Commune by the French Army in May 1871, 43,000 Communards were taken prisoner, and 6,500 to 7,500 fled abroad. The number of Communard soldiers killed in combat or executed afterwards during the week has long been disputed—Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray put the number at 20,000, while estimates by more recent historians put the probable number between 10,000 and 15,000. 7,500 were jailed or deported under arrangements which continued until a general amnesty during the 1880s; this action by Adolphe Thiers forestalled the proto-communist movement in the French Third Republic (1871–1940).