Paris Commune, Burned Palais d'Orsay, 1871
Entitled: "Grande Salle du Conseil d'Etat" photographed by Charles Soulier, May 1871. Soulier's photograph shows the charred remains of the once lavish audience hall of the Council of State in the Palais d'Orsay, a building begun by Napoleon I, completed in 1840 under King Louis-Philippe, and burned by the Communards on May 23, 1871. In the last years of the 19th century, these ruins were replaced by a new railway station, the Gare d'Orsay, which, in turn, was transformed in the 1980s into the Mus̩e d'Orsay, the French national museum for art made between 1848 and 1914. The Paris Commune was a revolutionary and socialist government that briefly ruled Paris from March 18 until May 28, 1871. The killing of two French army generals by soldiers of the Commune's National Guard and the refusal of the Commune to accept the authority of the French government led to its harsh suppression by the regular French Army in "La Semaine sanglante" (The Bloody Week) beginning on May 21, 1871. Debates over the policies and outcome of the Commune had significant influence on the ideas of Karl Marx.
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