[Pelham]

"That left Paris itself under the control of an increasingly radicalized socialist administration, with its military arm in the populist National Guard. Tensions grew under the new president, Adolphe Thiers, whom radicals denounced as a tool of the propertied classes: Karl Marx called him a “monstrous gnome.” In March 1871, the prospect of a government attack to reclaim Paris provoked a leftist coup.

"The Commune held out for two months in increasingly desperate straits, with growing violence against the bourgeois and clergy, who found themselves hostages. Women militants were at the forefront of the movement, including the semi-mythical female arsonists, the Pétroleuses. When the city fell to Versailles government troops in May, the resulting purges and massacres claimed some twenty thousand lives, culminating in the atrocious Bloody Week. Tens of thousands of other Communards —as the Commune’s members were called—were imprisoned or transported."

[dfwgator]

Basically the French couldn’t stand that there was a new kid on the block.

[BigEdLB]

Great grandfather’s brother fighting forPrussia lost a leg

[WLusvardi]

What is the point of this excessively long and meandering article?