Paris Commune, Social experiment in France
The Paris Commune was a revolutionary socialist government that controlled Paris from March to May 1871.
It emerged from an uprising after France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the collapse of the Second Empire.
The Commune has been celebrated as a model by various leftist movements and thinkers, including Marxists, anarchists, and democratic socialists.
Though it lasted only two months, the Paris Commune's policies previewed many modern social reforms.
The burning of the Tuileries Palace during the fall of the Commune marks one of the final acts of the Parisian insurrection.
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