In France, historical anniversaries tend to divide rather than unite. This year, which marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune and the bicentennial of Napoléon Bonaparte’s death, certainly ...

A brief history of the world's first socialist working class uprising. The workers of Paris, joined by mutinous National Guardsmen, seized the city and set about re-organising society in their own ...

Today is the 150 th anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune. The Commune (Council) was formed as result of what should be considered the first uprising and revolution led by the working ...

Exactly 150 years after the Paris Commune, rival passions are flaring again over how to remember the city's brief and much-romanticised experiment in power to the people. The first act of the city's ...

A revolt of the working class, the Paris Commune was the most radical subversion of France's social order since the Revolution of 1789. Passionate and divisive, just like their subject matter, this ...

ItIt it 1,442 pages long, has 35 contributors, contains 500 biographical notes, and features hundreds of iconographic documents and articles about all the political and historical issues raised by the ...

We generally don’t see Paris as a city scarred by war. It is not like London and Berlin, where the drab modern architecture of the urban centers offers silent reminders of past aerial bombardment. It ...