Paris, France - People Visiting "Pere Lachaise" Cemetery, Monument to "Paris Commune", 1871, Wall Where Parisian Revolutionaries killed
Paris, France - People Visiting "Pere Lachaise" Cemetery, Monument to "Paris Commune", "The "Mur des Fédérés", Père-Lachaise Cemetary where the last resisting communards were shot on 28 May 1871. The plaque says: `Aux Morts De La Commune.' "The night of 27-28 May, their last stand took place among the tombs of Père-Lachaise Cemetary. Archibald Forbes, an English journalist, recorded the aftermath at the Mur des Fédérés ("Wall of the Federalists") in the south eastern corner of the cemetary." "When I returned the Communists were at their last gasp in the Château d'Eau, the Buttes de Chaumont, and Père-Lachaise. On the afternoon of the 28th, after just one week of fighting, Marshal MacMahon announced, `I am absolute master of Paris'. On the following morning I visited Père-Lachaise, where the very last shots had been fired. Bivouac fires had been fed with the souvenirs of pious sorrow, and the trappings of woe had been torn down to be used as bedclothes. But there had been no great amount of fighting in the cemetery itself. An infallible token of close and heavy firing are the dents of many bullets, and of those there were comparatively few in Père-Lachaise. " ()
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Location: Paris, France - "Pere Lachaise"
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